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Aristides

#8,316 in 2025Boys' name

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Aristides has been given to 711 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #8,316 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Aristides, 2025

1 in 368,000

Aristides over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aristides: meaning, origin, and history

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What Aristides means

Aristides means “best”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aristides is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Greek.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Aristides is pronounced /a.ɾisˈt͡ʃi.d͡ʒis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 711 boys were recorded with the name Aristides between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1982; its best national rank was #2,585 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,164 in 2020 to #8,316 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,078 in 2015 to #8,316 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 Aristides?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,316
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aristides 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 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aristides. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aristidess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aristides was born before 1990 — so the typical Aristides is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
625
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1990s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Aristides 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
+1,666
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,848
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−238
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 1982 (17)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,585
1968

Where Aristides is used

Across 1910–2025, Aristides was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 750,160 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Aristides has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aristides around the world

Where Aristides 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aristides by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,316
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,848
Best rank ever
#2,585
1968
Peak year
1982
17 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
711
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Aristides

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

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Sibling names for Aristides

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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