Aristotle
Aristotle was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,222 among boys’ names; 1,017 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aristotle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aristotle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aristotle is “a male given name.”
Via Latin Aristotelēs from Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).
/ˈæɹɪˌstɑtəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aristotle?
#5,222 among boys’ names, 2025
Aristotle fell from #4,553 in 2015 to #5,222 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 10.5 per million.
31 babies in 2001, the peak
Aristotle peaked in 2001, when 31 boys were given it, #2,929 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,222 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,200 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,080 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,446 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,939 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,867 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,114 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,795 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,891 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 31 | #3,529 | 16.3 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,553 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,537 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,667 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,400 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,231 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,525 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,167 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,909 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,672 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,481 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,818 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,019 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,282 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,189 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,929 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 17 | #4,393 | 8.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,280 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,192 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,903 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,678 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 25 | #2,847 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,027 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,255 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,105 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,817 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,677 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,183 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,171 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,485 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,783 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,586 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,002 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,433 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,872 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,156 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,867 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,224 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,212 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,643 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,641 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,136 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,406 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,471 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,156 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,291 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,078 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,951 | 2.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,073 | 2.4 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,304 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 8 | #2,995 | 7.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,718 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,233 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,723 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,427 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aristotle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aristotle has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aristotle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aristotle, and how old are they?
An estimated 948 Americans named Aristotle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 11 and 32. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,126 people named Aristotle (14 women and girls, 1,112 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aristotle
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.
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