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Ardith

Girls' name

Variant of Ardath

Ardith has been given to 5,712 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1930, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Ardith, 1985

1 in 446,000

Ardith over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ardith: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ardath

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ardith means

Ardith is a variant of Ardath.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ardith is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ardath.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,581 girls were recorded with the name Ardith between 1904 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 176 in 1930; its best national rank was #487 in 1935.

In the United States, 131 boys were recorded with the name Ardith between 1915 and 1955. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,457 in 1929.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Ardith?

Ardith had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985
1 in 446,000
8 of 3,568,740 births
Among girls only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1985
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
309,209 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ardith sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1985 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 309,209 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ardiths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardith was born before 1935 — so the typical Ardith is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
909
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1930s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (1,597).

Is Ardith rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1930 (176)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#487
1935

Spellings of Ardith

Ardith is not the most common spelling — Judith is, with 59.3% against Ardith's 0.73%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ardith is used

Across 1910–2025, Ardith was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 33,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 3,846
  2. 2Iowa1 in 5,263
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 9,091
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 9,091
  5. 5Michigan1 in 10,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ardith has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ardith by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#487
1935
Peak year
1930
176 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
5,581
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,457
1929
Peak year
1928
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1955
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ardith

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArdenArdellaArdellArdisLilithArdathArdyceArdethLillithArdythAerithArdelleArdynArdeliaArdenaYudithArdysZenithArdeneKeithArdieArdeanArdytheJanith

Names with a curve like Ardith

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ardith, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PearlineShirleeWilleneLoyceGearldineBennieMargarettCletaNoreneVernellEloisRutha

Sibling names for Ardith

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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