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Ares

#290 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly bane, ruin or male

Ares has been given to 8,576 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #290 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,157 recorded.

Babies named Ares, 2025

1 in 2,870

Ares over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ares: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly bane, ruin or male

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ares means

Ares may mean “bane, ruin or male”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ares is used in Polish.

Ares comes through Ancient Greek Ἄρης.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Ares is pronounced /ˈa.rɛs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,284 boys were recorded with the name Ares between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,157 in 2025; its best national rank was #290 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #596 in 2020 to #290 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #722 in 2015 to #290 in 2025.

In the United States, 292 girls were recorded with the name Ares between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2019; its best national rank was #3,931 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,179 in 2020 to #4,670 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,704 in 2015 to #4,670 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ares?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 2,870
1,157 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,480
0.07% of boys
Rank, 2025
#290
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
1,987 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ares sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 301%
Grade of 1003%
School of 50016%

Put another way: gather 1,987 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ares. In a class of 30 the chance is 1%.

When Aress were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ares was born before 2021 — so the typical Ares is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,284
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (4,746).

Is Ares rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+306
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+432
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,157)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#290
2025

Spellings of Ares

Ares is not the most common spelling — James is, with 73.1% against Ares's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ares is used

Across 2016–2025, Ares was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 885 boys, against 1 in 2,446 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 14,286).

7113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 885
  2. 2Nevada1 in 1,064
  3. 3Arizona1 in 1,333
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 1,370
  5. 5California1 in 1,786
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 1,923
  7. 7Texas1 in 1,923
  8. 8Florida1 in 1,961

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Ares is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 52% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ares around the world

Where Ares ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #650
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2024–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #466
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ares

People whose public names include Ares, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ares by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#290
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 306
Best rank ever
#290
2025
Peak year
2025
1,157 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,284
Count in 2025
1,157

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,670
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 509
Best rank ever
#3,931
2019
Peak year
2019
37 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
292
Count in 2025
29

Names similar to Ares

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArenArekArelAregAreebFaresTresTavaresAreliAndresArezArefTorresArendAiresAreonDoloresAreezAreenAyresPharesDeloresAredAreus

Names with a curve like Ares

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ares, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ares

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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