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Ares

Ares reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 290, and has been recorded 8,576 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 290th. About 8,500 Areses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Ares boys named Ares

By the numbers

Total US births
8,576
Estimated living today
8,500
Median age today
4
Peak year
2025
Best rank
290th
Rank in 2025
290th
First recorded
1983
Girls / boys
292 / 8,284

How old the living Areses are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 8,576 babies given the name since 1983, about 8,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ares is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ares is most concentrated in Nevada (5.0×), Arizona (3.1×), New Mexico (2.2×), Florida (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Ares peaked:

All the names of 2025

Ares elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Spain boys Ares 810 70th
Italy boys Ares 711
France boys Arès +2 spellings 655 360th
England and Wales boys Ares 397 552nd
Switzerland boys Ares 195 360th
Belgium boys Ares +1 spelling 155 563rd
Scotland boys Ares 12 609th
Poland boys Ares 10 birth registrations 511th
Ireland boys Ares 6 785th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ares: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Ares 142 0.011% 303rd
French boys Switzerland Ares 21 0.005% 523rd
Italian boys Switzerland Ares 32 0.049% 54th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ares is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.05% of children were given it – 31 of them.

Ares: rank by region

In 2025, Ares was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Ares 464 12
Wallonia Arès 394 6

In 2022, Ares was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Mazowieckie Ares 339 2

In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ares appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (319th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ares by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 14 383rd

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ares among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Ares 38 65

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ares lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,448 men called Ares and 1,848 women called Ares were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Ourense Ares 36 0.245 344
Pontevedra Ares 101 0.221 353
Huesca Ares 25 0.213 381
Toledo Ares 79 0.208 375
Ávila Ares 16 0.198 392
Barcelona Ares 573 0.196 402

Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lleida Ares 796 3.573 51
Huesca Ares 36 0.319 306
Tarragona Ares 122 0.279 399
Barcelona Ares 624 0.205 426
Girona Ares 54 0.130 657
Castellón/Castelló Ares 21 0.067 1,021

Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.