Aries
Aries is given to both girls and boys: 86 girls and 417 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,155 among girls’ names and #661 among boys’, #1,164 among all names counting both); 7,165 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,080 Americans named Aries and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aries by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aries?
#661 among boys’ names, 2025
Aries rose from #1,191 in 2015 to #661 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.24 per 1,000.
503 babies in 2025, the peak
Aries peaked in 2025, when 503 babies were given it (417 boys, #661 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 385 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,155 | 417 | #661 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,779 | 385 | #700 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,852 | 323 | #782 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,962 | 277 | #867 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,804 | 251 | #913 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,959 | 255 | #886 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,717 | 234 | #930 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,164 | 222 | #942 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,132 | 179 | #1,090 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,519 | 177 | #1,106 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,650 | 155 | #1,191 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,538 | 162 | #1,164 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,872 | 135 | #1,286 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,219 | 107 | #1,499 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,358 | 98 | #1,577 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,314 | 90 | #1,697 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,800 | 90 | #1,718 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,997 | 97 | #1,613 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,396 | 80 | #1,812 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,398 | 78 | #1,770 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,081 | 92 | #1,533 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,851 | 75 | #1,698 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,000 | 83 | #1,535 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,745 | 68 | #1,705 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,417 | 89 | #1,397 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,903 | 68 | #1,677 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,185 | 67 | #1,602 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,887 | 49 | #1,957 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,228 | 27 | #2,823 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,025 | 28 | #2,681 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,589 | 13 | #4,518 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,449 | 21 | #3,213 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,530 | 21 | #3,141 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,091 | 16 | #3,752 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,007 | 14 | #4,013 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,127 | 12 | #4,418 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,362 | 16 | #3,454 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,338 | 8 | #5,217 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,925 | 14 | #3,342 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,168 | 7 | #5,364 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,990 | 9 | #4,344 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,926 | 6 | #5,604 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,695 | 14 | #3,080 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,941 | 8 | #4,625 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,835 | 15 | #2,906 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,217 | 9 | #4,088 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 11 | #3,407 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 11 | #3,399 | |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,637 | 14 | #2,832 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,610 | 17 | #2,451 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,295 | 11 | #3,134 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,211 | 11 | #3,020 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,331 | 5 | #5,029 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #4,957 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 9 | #3,290 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aries a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,165 Americans recorded as Aries, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aries: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aries, and how old are they?
7,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,165 Americans ever recorded as Aries. The median Aries alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 4,172 people named Aries (1,560 women and girls, 2,612 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 501 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,320 |
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 Aries born?
The states with the most babies named Aries are Texas, California and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 59 | #632 | 0.9× |
| California | 50 | #669 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 39 | #544 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #459 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 22 | #470 | 0.9× |
| New York | 17 | #799 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 16 | #572 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 15 | #465 | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 15 | #653 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 14 | #573 | 0.7× |
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 Aries 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, Aries is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 503 of their 2,037 babies (25%), again the second 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 Aries
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 Aries and names like it
- Compare Aries and AresBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAries peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aries since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aries.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aries alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.