How Many People Are Named Ares?
people named Ares are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 40,115 people in the US has this name
Based on 8,576 babies named Ares in Social Security records from 1983 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
1,186 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Perhaps from either Greek αρη (are) "bane, ruin" or αρσην (arsen) "male". Ares was the blood-thirsty god of war in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Hera.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Ares in English. Counting Ares and these spellings together, about 15,602 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Ares, 3.4% were girls and 96.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 2000s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 3.2% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Ares alive today is about 6 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 1 and 9 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Ares first appears in the records in 1983, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 1,186 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1983 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Ares has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #290, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #290.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #290 |
| Best rank | #290 (2025) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #403 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Ares alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Ares were born in California than in any other state: about 1,441 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Ares was given 2.5 times as often in New Mexico, 2.2 times in Nevada and 1.8 times in Arizona.
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