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.
Where Mars is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Virginia#854 · 1 in 5,484
- Tennessee#912 · 1 in 5,985
- New York#1,130 · 1 in 8,718
- California#1,190 · 1 in 11,125
- Georgia#1,214 · 1 in 8,539
Best ever in a state: #670 in Utah, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #854 | 7 | 1 in 5,484 |
| Tennessee | #912 | 6 | 1 in 5,985 |
| New York | #1,130 | 10 | 1 in 8,718 |
| California | #1,190 | 17 | 1 in 11,125 |
| Georgia | #1,214 | 6 | 1 in 8,539 |
| Illinois | #1,283 | 5 | 1 in 10,352 |
| Texas | #1,364 | 14 | 1 in 12,765 |
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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 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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 109,342 of them was named Mars, which outranked 59.0% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,984Zeriah16
- #6,984Ziomara16
- #6,984Zoila16
- #7,281Mars15
- #7,281Aaminah15
- #7,281Aasiya15
- #7,281Abiha15
- #7,631Aalaiyah14
- #7,631Aaliah14
- #7,631Abi14
Tied with 349 names at #7,281; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 15,451 of them was named Mars, which outranked 89.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,559Savion114
- #1,559Sky114
- #1,559Xavion114
- #1,566Mars113
- #1,566Akiva113
- #1,566Channing113
- #1,566Destin113
- #1,574Aarush112
- #1,574Amare112
- #1,574Amaris112
Tied with 7 names at #1,566; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.