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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ordell

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

185

peak year 1922

More common than

70%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1922
12 births
Best rank
#2,257
in 1939
First recorded
1916
#3,420 that year
Last recorded
1948
no later published record
Average birth year
1931
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
25 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192212#2,597Peak
  2. 191911#2,623
  3. 192311#2,729
  4. 193911#2,257
  5. 192110#2,927

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,257 in 1939 · peak births 12 in 1922

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 78% boys■ 22% girls

185 boys · 53 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ordell has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.