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 | ||
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| 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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| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Mexico#186 · 1 in 624
- Hawaii#210 · 1 in 608
- Nevada#249 · 1 in 919
- Kansas#257 · 1 in 969
- Arizona#266 · 1 in 1,083
Best ever in a state: #134 in New Mexico, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | #186 | 10 | 1 in 624 |
| Hawaii | #210 | 5 | 1 in 608 |
| Nevada | #249 | 12 | 1 in 919 |
| Kansas | #257 | 14 | 1 in 969 |
| Arizona | #266 | 30 | 1 in 1,083 |
| California | #304 | 123 | 1 in 1,462 |
| Texas | #309 | 121 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Colorado | #328 | 18 | 1 in 1,379 |
| South Carolina | #330 | 16 | 1 in 1,276 |
| Florida | #338 | 57 | 1 in 1,653 |
| Maryland | #341 | 16 | 1 in 1,452 |
| Ohio | #371 | 30 | 1 in 1,749 |
| Connecticut | #380 | 7 | 1 in 1,890 |
| New York | #401 | 42 | 1 in 2,042 |
| Wisconsin | #414 | 12 | 1 in 1,962 |
| Virginia | #428 | 18 | 1 in 2,069 |
| Illinois | #434 | 24 | 1 in 2,090 |
| Nebraska | #437 | 5 | 1 in 1,700 |
| Iowa | #448 | 7 | 1 in 1,906 |
| Missouri | #451 | 13 | 1 in 2,065 |
| Washington | #469 | 15 | 1 in 2,110 |
| Utah | #471 | 9 | 1 in 2,042 |
| Pennsylvania | #491 | 19 | 1 in 2,738 |
| Georgia | #495 | 21 | 1 in 2,399 |
| Oklahoma | #510 | 8 | 1 in 2,189 |
| New Jersey | #519 | 14 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Louisiana | #535 | 9 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Oregon | #542 | 6 | 1 in 2,465 |
| Michigan | #548 | 14 | 1 in 2,869 |
| Indiana | #571 | 11 | 1 in 2,873 |
| Minnesota | #587 | 8 | 1 in 3,000 |
| Kentucky | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,302 |
| North Carolina | #717 | 12 | 1 in 4,227 |
| Massachusetts | #767 | 5 | 1 in 5,459 |
| Alabama | #771 | 5 | 1 in 4,378 |
| Tennessee | #829 | 7 | 1 in 5,105 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 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 64,183 of them was named Ares, which outranked 70.9% 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).
- #4,999Zanai26
- #4,999Zenith26
- #4,999Zhara26
- #5,126Ares25
- #5,126Aalia25
- #5,126Addeline25
- #5,126Adelie25
- #5,248Addelynn24
- #5,248Adison24
- #5,248Ahmari24
Tied with 121 names at #5,126; 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 2,210 of them was named Ares, which outranked 97.1% 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).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.