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How popular is “Ardell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ardell” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ardell” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ardell” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ardell” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ardell” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ardell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ardell” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1898 10 0.000026215 10 100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 100%
1903 12 0.00003148 12 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 11 0.000025674 11 100%
1907 20 0.000042975 11 9 10%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 100%
1909 9 0.000017605 9 100%
1910 22 0.000037243 17 5 55%
1911 30 0.000046564 23 7 53%
1912 40 0.000040483 32 8 60%
1913 47 0.000041333 30 17 28%
1914 77 0.000054365 42 35 9%
1915 82 0.000044749 55 27 34%
1916 89 0.000046009 61 28 37%
1917 100 0.000049832 62 38 24%
1918 105 0.000048362 73 32 39%
1919 131 0.000062078 79 52 21%
1920 136 0.000060107 79 57 16%
1921 130 0.000055686 65 65 0%
1922 143 0.000062468 96 47 34%
1923 151 0.000065581 87 64 15%
1924 115 0.000048287 62 53 8%
1925 143 0.000061287 82 61 15%
1926 134 0.000058365 85 49 27%
1927 128 0.000055188 72 56 13%
1928 123 0.000054402 69 54 12%
1929 109 0.000049723 66 43 21%
1930 120 0.000053974 52 68 -13%
1931 109 0.000051797 59 50 8%
1932 109 0.000051627 63 46 16%
1933 108 0.000054015 59 49 9%
1934 95 0.000045743 53 42 12%
1935 121 0.000057898 67 54 11%
1936 89 0.000042838 48 41 8%
1937 87 0.000040832 52 35 20%
1938 92 0.000041581 48 44 4%
1939 87 0.000039484 55 32 26%
1940 76 0.000033005 40 36 5%
1941 66 0.000027089 36 30 9%
1942 73 0.000026722 31 42 -15%
1943 94 0.000033303 54 40 15%
1944 66 0.000024535 35 31 6%
1945 50 0.000018847 30 20 20%
1946 63 0.000019716 29 34 -8%
1947 66 0.000018322 35 31 6%
1948 51 0.000014772 29 22 14%
1949 53 0.000015209 25 28 -6%
1950 56 0.000015985 25 31 -11%
1951 59 0.000016016 31 28 5%
1952 77 0.000020274 37 40 -4%
1953 53 0.000013753 19 34 -28%
1954 52 0.000013063 25 27 -4%
1955 62 0.000015442 27 35 -13%
1956 49 0.000011884 30 19 22%
1957 38 0.000009043 13 25 -32%
1958 30 0.000007257 15 15 0%
1959 42 0.000010101 18 24 -14%
1960 28 0.000006741 20 8 43%
1961 25 0.000006035 10 15 -20%
1962 29 0.000007186 9 20 -38%
1963 32 0.000008084 9 23 -44%
1964 27 0.000006945 12 15 -11%
1965 21 0.000005792 7 14 -33%
1966 26 0.000007481 8 18 -38%
1967 16 0.000004713 16 -100%
1968 12 0.000003552 6 6 0%
1969 17 0.000004892 6 11 -29%
1970 22 0.0000061 22 -100%
1971 27 0.000007866 5 22 -63%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 -100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 -100%
1975 14 0.000004637 14 -100%
1976 21 0.000006921 21 -100%
1977 25 0.00000787 5 20 -60%
1978 12 0.000003781 12 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 11 0.000003136 11 -100%
1983 12 0.000003465 12 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 10 0.000002802 10 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 9 0.000002436 9 -100%
1989 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 8 0.000002054 8 -100%
1992 13 0.000003384 13 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 -100%
1995 8 0.000002185 8 -100%
1998 7 0.000001903 7 -100%
1999 8 0.000002166 8 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2001 6 0.000001603 6 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 -100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 -100%
2006 7 0.000001769 7 -100%
2008 6 0.000001526 6 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2014 7 0.000001889 7 -100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 -100%
2017 7 0.000001957 7 -100%
2020 5 0.000001497 5 -100%
2021 5 0.000001476 5 -100%
2023 5 0.00000151 5 -100%

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