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Areli vs Ares

American parents have registered 8,576 Areses since 1880, against 6,739 Arelis. Ares is still ahead, with 1,186 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Areli against Ares, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Areli Ares

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Areli for 41 years and Ares for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Areli Ares
Total US births 6,7398,576
Most in one year 3301,186
Babies in 2025 1851,186
Estimated living today 6,7008,500
Median age today 184
Peak year 20082025
Best rank 850th girls290th boys
Rank in 2025 1,261st290th
First recorded 19661983
Girls / boys 6,624 / 115292 / 8,284

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arelis alive today are over 18; half the Areses are over 4. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Areli Ares
England and Wales 35397

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Areli and Ares.