Aries

What Aries means

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

Editor’s note Used for both: 83% of US babies named Aries in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aries?

US: Rising: up from #1190 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 417 boys got the name (#661 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 4,096 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 15,108 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 NV (0.62 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.46 per 1,000 boys), OR (0.46 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Aries is #661 in the US and #1466 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 82.9% of US babies named Aries 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

• Arius48 US · 4 E&W
• Urias22 US
• Arias19 US
• Ariez9 US
• Eries8 US
• Aeries5 US
• Arios0 US · 4 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 Aries

Boys

• Cyrus#268Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US
• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Luca#14Form of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025
• Matteo#146Italian, from Latin Matthaeus, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*

For a sister

• Georgia#99“farmer”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Josephine#53Feminine form of Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*

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 Aries’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.