girls:
36 births since 1918
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1896
#1855 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1896
#4166 (46th percentile)
The name Wardell is the #4,166 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,326 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 46.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,855 (59.5% percentile) for all time with 4,290 births since 1896. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1918.
Wardell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Wardell is available in 115 out of the 125 years between 1896 and 2020 (115 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wardell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wardell reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 13.7% percentile (ranked #518) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 85 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Wardell reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #587) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wardell".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Wardell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.4% confident that Wardell is pronounced as WOR-dehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is wor-DEHL, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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