Ares

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ares: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ares: Recorded since 2009, its highest recorded position is #552, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
18times a registrar ranked it
17years from first to last
#552highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 2009–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#3227
2010	#4678
2011	#2613
2013	#2660
2014	#2248
2015	#2150
2016	#1570
2017	#1289
2018	#1455
2019	#908
2020	#962
2021	#771
2022	#925
2023	#791
2024	#552

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 15 of the 16 years from 2009 to 2024.

In 2024: #552 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2009–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #3227 among boys in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2009–2024
Highest recorded position: #552 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2009–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ares appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 2009, and has registered 341 births with the name.

Ares across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ares's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3227 (2009)	#552 (2024)	#552 (2024)	15 of 16	341 (2009–2024)	69 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#785 (2024)	#785 (2024)	#829 (2025)	2 of 2	6 (2024–2025)	3 (2024)

Ares by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ares in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	5	1 of 10	5
2010s	121	9 of 10	13
2020sbusiest	215	5 of 10	43

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 43 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 28, from 41 to 69.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ares appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #552 in England and Wales in 2024.

Ares's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#552	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#791	41	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#925	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#771	43	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#962	29	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#908	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1570	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2613	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2009 and 2025, ranked in 16 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #552, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 69 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 15 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aadya · #556, 18y
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Munachimso · #541, 15y
Raiya · #541, 19y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Franek · #552, 17y
Caeden · #550, 18y
Rugile · #550, 16y
Kornelija · #549, 12y

Ares was ranked #552 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ares and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ares without appearing here.

Ares moved ahead of

Aria Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2613 and #1788 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2150 and #4747.
Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2660 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.
Brooke Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4678 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2613 and #4647.
Malin Compare
In 2010 they stood at #4678 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2613 and #4647.

Moved the opposite way to Ares

Aaron Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 while Aaron went from #54 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 while Alan went from #193 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 while Alex went from #50 to #171.
Alexander Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 while Alexander went from #22 to #36.

Moved the same way as Ares

Aksel Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 and Aksel from #2837 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 and Albie from #291 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 and Alfred from #146 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ares went from #3227 to #552 and Archie from #20 to #10.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2009 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #552 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ares

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ares across 2 official records

Ares by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Ares across 2 official records

Ares by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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