# Ares (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ares/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,576 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,284 / 292 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 397, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 15,028 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,376 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,118 |
| 2014 | 16 | 7,344 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,710 |
| 2016 | 15 | 7,640 |
| 2017 | 13 | 8,342 |
| 2018 | 25 | 5,172 |
| 2019 | 37 | 3,932 |
| 2020 | 24 | 5,182 |
| 2021 | 27 | 4,851 |
| 2022 | 30 | 4,597 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,141 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,638 |
| 2025 | 29 | 4,671 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 119 | 1,395 |
| 2012 | 181 | 1,052 |
| 2013 | 232 | 897 |
| 2014 | 295 | 782 |
| 2015 | 341 | 722 |
| 2016 | 360 | 688 |
| 2017 | 403 | 643 |
| 2018 | 490 | 561 |
| 2019 | 487 | 574 |
| 2020 | 462 | 596 |
| 2021 | 568 | 516 |
| 2022 | 645 | 479 |
| 2023 | 774 | 414 |
| 2024 | 1,140 | 295 |
| 2025 | 1,157 | 290 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2013 | 7 | 2,660 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 10 | 2,150 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,570 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,289 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 32 | 908 |
| 2020 | 29 | 962 |
| 2021 | 43 | 771 |
| 2022 | 33 | 925 |
| 2023 | 41 | 791 |
| 2024 | 69 | 552 |
| 2025 | 56 | 650 |

## 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.