Aries

Where Aries comes from

Aries hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,282 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1975
    Aries Spears born
    American comedian
  3. 1985
    Aries Merritt born
    American hurdler
  4. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #661
    417 babies named Aries — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aries Merritt · American hurdler, born 1985
  • Aries Spears · American comedian, born 1975
  • Aries Susanti Rahayu · Indonesian rock climber, born 1995
  • Aries Moross · British graphic designer, art director and illustrator, born 1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.