Ardyce
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ardyce has been given to 1,263 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1936, with 55 recorded.
Babies named Ardyce, 1960
1 in 593,000
Ardyce over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ardyce?
Ardyce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1960, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1960
- 1 in 593,000
- 7 of 4,153,934 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 289,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1960
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 411,328 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ardyce sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1960 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 411,328 children born in 1960 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ardyce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ardyces were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ardyce was born before 1933 — so the typical Ardyce is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 35.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 116
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (442).
Is Ardyce 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1936 (55)
- Years since peak
- 89
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.0% average annual change
Spellings of Ardyce
Ardyce is not the most common spelling — Alyce is, with 46.1% against Ardyce's 3.3%.
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 Ardyce is used
Across 1910–2025, Ardyce was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 48,426 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
- 2Nebraska1 in 12,500
- 3South Dakota1 in 20,000
- 4North Dakota1 in 25,000
- 5Iowa1 in 33,333
- 6Wisconsin1 in 33,333
- 7California1 in —
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. Ardyce has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ardyce by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ardyce
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ardyce
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.