Ares
Ares was given to 1,157 boys in 2025, #290 among boys’ names; 8,576 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,510 Americans named Ares and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ares by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ares mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Ares is “a given name for a dog”
From Ancient Greek Ἄρης (Árēs).
/ˈa.rɛs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ares?
#290 among boys’ names, 2025
Ares rose from #722 in 2015 to #290 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.18 to 0.68 per 1,000.
1,186 babies in 2025, the peak
Ares peaked in 2025, when 1,186 babies were given it (1,157 boys, #290 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,140 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,157 | #290 | 0.68 |
| 2024 | 1,140 | #295 | 0.66 |
| 2023 | 774 | #414 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 645 | #479 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 568 | #516 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 462 | #596 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 487 | #574 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 490 | #561 | 0.27 |
| 2017 | 403 | #643 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 360 | #688 | 0.19 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 341 | #722 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 295 | #782 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 232 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 181 | #1,052 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,395 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 110 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 92 | #1,700 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 73 | #1,950 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,179 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,019 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,160 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,782 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,127 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 26 | #3,019 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,299 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ares a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,576 Americans recorded as Ares, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 29 girls and 1,157 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ares: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ares, and how old are they?
8,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,576 Americans ever recorded as Ares. The median Ares alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 3,214 people named Ares (177 women and girls, 3,037 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 922 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,580 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ares born?
The states with the most babies named Ares are Texas, California and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 182 | #214 | 1.3× |
| California | 176 | #213 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 109 | #201 | 1.0× |
| New York | 69 | #272 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 41 | #203 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 37 | #327 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 32 | #335 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 30 | #372 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 30 | #294 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 29 | #380 | 0.6× |
Where Ares is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ares is most over-represented in Nevada: since 1983 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ares with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,701 babies since 1880, Ares is the most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,186 of their 2,037 babies (58%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ares
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ares and names like it
- Compare Ares and AriesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAres peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ares since 1910.
- Polish namesWiktionary’s origin for Ares: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Ares.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ares alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.