Ardis

Where Ardis comes from

Ardis hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1899
    First appearance
    #728 among girls, 19 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Peak, #477
    179 babies named Ardis — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #803.
  4. 1971
    Ardis Fagerholm born
    Swedish singer
  5. 2018
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ardis Fagerholm · Swedish singer, born 1971

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.