# Aleš (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ales/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | 5,470 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 3,227 |

## People named Aleš

- Ales Bialiatski, Belarusian activist, Nobel laureate (born 1962)
- Aleš Matějů, Czech association football player
- Ales Hemsky, Czech ice hockey player
- Aleš Valenta, Czech freestyle skier
- Aleš Kotalík, Czech ice hockey player
- Aleš Mandous, Czech association football player
- Aleš Razým, Czech cross-country skier
- Aleš Čermák, Czech soccer player
- Aleš Chvalovský, Czech soccer player
- Aleš Vodseďálek, Czech Olympian and Nordic combined skier
- Aleš Höffer, Czechoslovak hurdler (1962-2008)
- Aleš Loprais, Czech rally raid driver

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.