Ardene

Where Ardene comes from

The dictionaries list Ardene as a given name — an unknown-gender given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #2,822 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Peak, #1,801
    18 babies named Ardene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,863.
In the dictionary
  • An unknown-gender given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ardene hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.