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Ardyce

Recorded 1912–1960 · United States

Ardyce was most popular in 1936, when 55 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,680 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,263 people named Ardyce.

Most popular in1936
Rank that year#1,680
Births that year55
Total since 18801,263
Given to100% girls
Alive today~356
Median age82

Ardyce over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Ardyce’s peak in 1936. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Ardyce?

Ardyce first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 1960.

How many people are named Ardyce?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,263 American births named Ardyce 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 356 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Ardyce in 2025?

Ardyce 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.

Is Ardyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Ardyce is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,263 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were 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.

How old is someone named Ardyce?

Roughly 356 Americans named Ardyce are alive today — 28% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 82 years old, and half are between 76 and 88. That is a narrow band: Ardyce arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.

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.

Where Ardyce is most concentrated

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