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How popular is the name Rares?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rareses are alive today.
Rares (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 976th in 2025 with 31 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 91 babies were given the name, the 443rd most popular that year. It has declined since 2020; the 2025 figure is roughly 34% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Rares you are most likely to meet is around 7 years old. Half of all Rareses born in England and Wales are between 4 and 9, and there are at least 730 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Rares - on average, only one in every 416 such rooms contains a Rares.
How many babies are named Rares each year?
Where does Rares rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rares most popular?
Rares peaked in 2020, when 91 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Rares?
At least 730 people named Rares born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rares?
Most living Rareses are between 4 and 9; the most common age is about 7.
Is Rares becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2020 peak.