Meaning not yet researched.
Aries: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 417 in 2025. Its best rank was #661 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 83% of babies named Aries in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#661 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Aries: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 417 boys in 2025. Peak: #661 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 417 (2025).
In 2025, 417 US boys were named Aries, making it the 661st most common boys’ name of the year, up 39 places from #700 in 2024. That is 32 more than the 385 boys named Aries in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #661, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 417. For comparison, it was #1,191 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 86 US girls were named Aries, making it the 2,155th most common girls’ name of the year, down 376 places from #1,779 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 113 girls named Aries in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,717, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 121. For comparison, it was #2,650 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aries in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 9 babies. In all, 7,165 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,524 babies named Aries.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,720 US boys were named Aries; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 417. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,096 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aries ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #392 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ares (8,576 babies since 1880), Aris (4,606 babies since 1880), Aeris (1,943 babies since 1880) and Arius (1,167 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arrius, Aerius and Arize are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arrius (38), Aerius (14), Arize (14), Airius (10), Aeriss (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aries in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 7 | #392 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #459 | #937 |
| Arizona | 15 | #465 | #785 |
| Colorado | 12 | #469 | — |
| Ohio | 22 | #470 | #992 |
| Oregon | 7 | #478 | — |
| Florida | 32 | #544 | #1,097 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #553 | — |
| Kentucky | 7 | #569 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #572 | — |
| Michigan | 14 | #573 | #982 |
| Iowa | 5 | #578 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #623 | — |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #626 | — |
| Texas | 48 | #632 | #973 |
| Missouri | 8 | #653 | #738 |
| California | 41 | #669 | #876 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #672 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #675 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #687 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #688 | #771 |
| Georgia | 13 | #712 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #713 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #784 | — |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #794 | — |
| New York | 17 | #799 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #906 | #959 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,036 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86 | #2,155 | 417 | #661 |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,779 | 385 | #700 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,852 | 323 | #782 |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,962 | 277 | #867 |
| 2021 | 112 | #1,804 | 251 | #913 |
| 2020 | 97 | #1,959 | 255 | #886 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,717 | 234 | #930 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,164 | 222 | #942 |
| 2017 | 90 | #2,132 | 179 | #1,090 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,519 | 177 | #1,106 |
| 2015 | 67 | #2,650 | 155 | #1,191 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,540 | 162 | #1,164 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,873 | 135 | #1,286 |
| 2012 | 51 | #3,220 | 107 | #1,499 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,359 | 98 | #1,577 |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,315 | 90 | #1,697 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,801 | 90 | #1,719 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,998 | 97 | #1,613 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,396 | 80 | #1,812 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,398 | 78 | #1,770 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,085 | 92 | #1,535 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,855 | 75 | #1,701 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,003 | 83 | #1,538 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,749 | 68 | #1,708 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,421 | 89 | #1,401 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,907 | 68 | #1,681 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,188 | 67 | #1,605 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,890 | 49 | #1,960 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,231 | 27 | #2,827 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,030 | 28 | #2,686 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,594 | 13 | #4,524 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,454 | 21 | #3,219 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,536 | 21 | #3,147 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,096 | 16 | #3,759 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,013 | 14 | #4,020 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,132 | 12 | #4,424 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,368 | 16 | #3,460 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,343 | 8 | #5,223 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,930 | 14 | #3,347 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,172 | 7 | #5,369 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,993 | 9 | #4,349 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,927 | 6 | #5,608 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,696 | 14 | #3,081 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,943 | 8 | #4,627 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,837 | 15 | #2,908 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,218 | 9 | #4,090 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,408 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,401 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,639 | 14 | #2,833 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,612 | 17 | #2,453 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,296 | 11 | #3,136 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,213 | 11 | #3,022 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,333 | 5 | #5,031 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #4,959 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,292 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).