Ardith
Ardith is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 487th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1930176 births
- Best rank
- #487in 1935
- Since 1904
- 5,712people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,581 girls have been named Ardith in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 176 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 176 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1930s alone account for 29%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 131 boys have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1930, its biggest year
Ardith was the 504th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.
Names that rose and fell with Ardith
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Willenepeak 1929
- Verlinepeak 1933
- Geraldinepeak 1930
- Mardellpeak 1932
- Earleanpeak 1932
- Merlinepeak 1924
- Eloispeak 1935
- Arletapeak 1932
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.