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.
Where Ares is popular in 1983
No state had 5 or more boys named Ares in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1983
Top boys' names in 1983
More about 1983
boys
1,792,564 boys got a published name in 1983; 1 in 358,513 of them was named Ares, which outranked 15.1% of the 7,344 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,106 names at #6,238; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.