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Areisy vs Ares

American parents have registered 8,576 Areses since 1880, against 21 Areisys. Ares is still ahead, with 1,186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Areisy 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 31 years in which either name was published, Ares for 30 years and Areisy for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Areisy Ares
Total US births 218,576
Most in one year 151,186
Babies in 2025 under 51,186
Estimated living today 208,500
Median age today 284
Peak year 19972025
Best rank 6,163rd girls290th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked290th
First recorded 19971983
Girls / boys 21 / 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 Areisys alive today are over 28; half the Areses are over 4. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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