Ardel**
#22,467 most common girls' name of all time · #36,646 across all names · 24% male / 76% female · used 1917–1963 · genuinely unisex
Rank among girls
#22,467
Rank overall
#36,646 of 105,966
First appeared
1917
Years on the list
19 of 146
All-time
128
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1920 #4,817
Best rank
#3,105 1937
Girls
Boys
peak 11/yr
Ardel first appears in 1917. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.
Year by year
| Year | Girls | Boys | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | — | 5 | #6,907 |
| 1960 | 5 | — | 5 | #6,658 |
| 1957 | 7 | — | 7 | #5,094 |
| 1954 | 5 | — | 5 | #6,053 |
| 1951 | 5 | 5 | 10 | #5,747 |
| 1946 | — | 5 | 5 | — |
| 1943 | 6 | — | 6 | #4,475 |
| 1942 | 7 | — | 7 | #3,974 |
| 1941 | 5 | — | 5 | #4,773 |
| 1939 | — | 6 | 6 | — |
| 1937 | 9 | — | 9 | #3,105 |
| 1932 | 5 | — | 5 | #4,831 |
| 1931 | — | 5 | 5 | — |
| 1926 | 7 | — | 7 | #4,207 |
| 1923 | 7 | — | 7 | #4,293 |
| 1920 | 6 | 5 | 11 | #4,817 |
| 1919 | 5 | — | 5 | #5,269 |
| 1918 | 7 | — | 7 | #4,225 |
| 1917 | 6 | 5 | 11 | #4,497 |