Ares

What Ares means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ares yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #722 in 2015, #290 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ares?

US: Rising: up from #722 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2150 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,157 boys got the name (#290 that year). First in the US records in 1983.

How common

• About 1 in 1,476 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,856 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (2.15 per 1,000 boys), NV (1.95 per 1,000 boys), RI (1.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ares is #290 in the US and #650 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.6% of US babies named Ares were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aris144 US · 113 E&W
• Eros146 US · 13 E&W
• Aras34 US · 47 E&W
• Ariz26 US · 15 E&W
• Eris26 US · 4 E&W
• Aires20 US
• Erez14 US
• Araz9 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ares

Boys

• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Holden#297Editor’s note Steady in the US: #291 in 2015 and #297 in 2025
• Leonardo#91Italian, from Old French Leonard, meaning “as strong as a lion”^*
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025

For a sister

• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ares’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.