Recorded 1899–2022 · United States
Ardis was most popular in 1928, when 228 American babies were given the name — ranking #828 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 7,416 people named Ardis.
Ardis first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1899, which makes it about 126 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 98 of the 127 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 7,416 American births named Ardis between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,225 are estimated to be alive today.
Ardis was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Ardis is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 6 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Ardis is mostly a girl’s name — 86.1% of the 7,416 Americans given it were girls and 13.9% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 77% girls and 23% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 2,225 Americans named Ardis are alive today — 30% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 76 years old, and half are between 67 and 85.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org