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Areanna vs Ares

American parents have registered 8,576 Areses since 1880, against 645 Areannas. Ares is still ahead, with 1,186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Areanna against Ares, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Areanna Ares

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Ares for 23 years and Areanna for 15 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Areanna Ares
Total US births 6458,576
Most in one year 451,186
Babies in 2025 under 51,186
Estimated living today 6408,500
Median age today 214
Peak year 20002025
Best rank 3,070th girls290th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked290th
First recorded 19891983
Girls / boys 645 / 0292 / 8,284

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Areannas alive today are over 21; half the Areses are over 4. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Areanna and Ares.