Mars — #1456 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mars

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,213 babies named Mars between 1923 and 2024, spanning 102 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mars currently holds the #1456 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 154 babies received it in a single year. Mars is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 175 additional births since 2016.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mars performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 633 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Mars shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 220 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mars in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mars in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,213 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.