Ares
Ares is ranked 295th among boys in 2024 (1,136 births). Its best rank was 295th, in 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #295up 119 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1360.07% of boys
- Peak year
- 20241,136 births
- Best rank
- #295in 2024
- Since 1983
- 7,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,120 boys have been named Ares in the United States since 1983, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 1,136 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 50%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 263 girls have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2024, its biggest year
Ares was the 295th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.
Names that rose and fell with Ares
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ezrahpeak 2023
- Lennoxpeak 2022
- Kaisenpeak 2024
- Atharvpeak 2022
- Kaycenpeak 2021
- Matheopeak 2024
- Kashmerepeak 2022
- Zeppelinpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.