Aristotle
#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 16 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,017since 1925
Aristotle over time
Rank among boys' names. Aristotle has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #4,200 | 25 |
| 2023 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #4,442 | 23 |
| 2021 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #4,855 | 19 |
| 2019 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #3,793 | 28 |
| 2017 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | #3,661 | 28 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #6,460 | 12 |
| 2005 | #3,815 | 24 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #3,280 | 28 |
| 2002 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #2,931 | 31 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #3,279 | 24 |
| 1998 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1994 | #3,030 | 23 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,637 | 15 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #2,405 | 16 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,062 | 9 |
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| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | #3,408 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aristotle! It came in at #3,408, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1931–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aristotle is popular in 1925
No state had 5 or more boys named Aristotle in 1925, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Aristotle
- 1,008 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #5,208)
- 353 spots since 2020 (#4,855 → #5,208)
- 663 spots since 2015 (#4,545 → #5,208)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1973 at #2,405 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 61,217 boys born in 2016 were named Aristotle (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,405 in 1973, was only 1 in 97,411 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.2% of all boys named Aristotle (256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 32 | #2,980 (1929) | #3,601 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,289 (1930) | #3,289 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 19 | #3,062 (1969) | #3,675 |
| 1970s | 103 | #2,405 (1973) | #3,588 |
| 1980s | 68 | #3,858 (1981) | #5,264 |
| 1990s | 195 | #2,847 (1995) | #3,675 |
| 2000s | 214 | #2,931 (2001) | #4,379 |
| 2010s | 256 | #3,524 (2016) | #4,019 |
| 2020s | 123 | #4,200 (2024) | #4,786 |
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.
Aristotle in 1925
Top boys' names in 1925
More about 1925
boys
1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 159,417 of them was named Aristotle, which outranked 30.0% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,155Yvon8
- #3,155Zeke8
- #3,155Zell8
- #3,408Aristotle7
- #3,408Abbott7
- #3,408Abran7
- #3,408Abron7
- #3,741Abell6
- #3,741Adley6
- #3,741Agostino6
Tied with 332 names at #3,408; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.