Ares
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #290 for boys in 2025, 1,157 births
Given to boys 96.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,157 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,284since 1983
Ares over time
Rank among boys' names. Ares has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | #290 | 1,157 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #295 | 1,140 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #414 | 774 |
| 2022 | #4,582 | 30 | #479 | 645 |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 | #516 | 568 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #596 | 462 |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | #574 | 487 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | #561 | 490 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #643 | 403 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #688 | 360 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #722 | 341 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | #782 | 295 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #897 | 232 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,052 | 181 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,395 | 119 |
| 2010 | — | #1,481 | 110 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,698 | 92 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,948 | 73 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,951 | 72 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,176 | 59 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,022 | 34 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,158 | 31 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,780 | 35 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,322 | 18 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,121 | 19 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,480 | 22 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,017 | 26 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ares! It came in at #6,238, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ares
- 5 spots since 2024 (#295 → #290)
- 306 spots since 2020 (#596 → #290)
- 432 spots since 2015 (#722 → #290)
- Biggest jump: 155 spots in 2013 (#1,052 → #897)
- Biggest drop: 22 spots in 2020 (#574 → #596)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #290 (1,157 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,476 boys born in 2025 were named Ares (0.07%)
- 57.3% of all boys named Ares (4,746) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,238 (1983) | #6,238 |
| 1990s | 66 | #3,017 (1998) | #4,807 |
| 2000s | 449 | #1,698 (2009) | #2,975 |
| 2010s | 3,018 | #561 (2018) | #880 |
| 2020s | 4,746 | #290 (2025) | #432 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ares in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 68,043 of them was named Ares, which outranked 71.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,007Zamaria26
- #5,007Zanyah26
- #5,007Zo26
- #5,152Ares25
- #5,152Aamira25
- #5,152Abigaelle25
- #5,152Aelin25
- #5,315Aamiyah24
- #5,315Adaiah24
- #5,315Adama24
Tied with 162 names at #5,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 3,706 of them was named Ares, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).