Mars
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births · #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
Given to boys 86.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 154 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,320since 1923
Mars over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #4,047 | 36 | #1,253 | 154 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,566 | 113 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | #1,306 | 144 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #1,634 | 98 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #1,737 | 90 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #1,920 | 77 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,935 | 74 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,305 | 57 |
| 2015 | — | #3,882 | 27 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,234 | 34 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,463 | 21 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,807 | 27 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,036 | 14 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,802 | 12 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1996 | — | #7,971 | 6 | |
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| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #4,940 | 7 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
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| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mars! It came in at #3,467, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1927, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mars
- 161 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,609)
- 25 spots since 2020 (#1,634 → #1,609)
- 2,273 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2023 at #1,253 (154 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,108 boys born in 2023 were named Mars (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 56.0% of all boys named Mars (739) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 18 | #3,467 (1923) | #3,791 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,538 (1943) | #3,538 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #3,930 (1965) | #3,930 |
| 1970s | 12 | #3,963 (1972) | #5,010 |
| 1980s | 12 | #4,940 (1980) | #6,423 |
| 1990s | 6 | #7,971 (1996) | #7,971 |
| 2000s | 72 | #6,094 (2006) | #8,958 |
| 2010s | 446 | #1,737 (2019) | #3,331 |
| 2020s | 739 | #1,253 (2023) | #1,469 |
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.
Mars in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 44,572 of them was named Mars, which outranked 77.0% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,984Zayra37
- #3,984Zunaira37
- #3,984Zuriah37
- #4,047Mars36
- #4,047Aalani36
- #4,047Aisling36
- #4,047Alexi36
- #4,114Aanvi35
- #4,114Addy35
- #4,114Adelaine35
Tied with 66 names at #4,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 11,108 of them was named Mars, which outranked 91.2% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,248Kaine155
- #1,248Terrance155
- #1,248Xzavier155
- #1,253Mars154
- #1,253Ilyas154
- #1,253Keon154
- #1,253Lucius154
- #1,258Derick153
- #1,258Dov153
- #1,258Eider153
Tied with 4 names at #1,253; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.