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Culture‘Mars’ is 2025’s most popular planet baby name - Thankfully, no one named their kid Uranus.
“Mars, can you please clean up your Legos?”
“Jupiter, finish your peas.”
“Don’t pull the cat’s tail, Mercury!”
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has released its baby name data for 2025 and it’s clear that plenty of parents found inspiration in the cosmos for their little ones. The most popular proper planet in our solar system to name a baby after in 2025 was Mars, followed by Jupiter. Thankfully, no one named their child Uranus, but 80 parents did name their child Cosmo.
Here’s the planet-baby name breakdown:
Mercury: 10 males
Venus: 96 females
Earth: Eight females
Mars: 27 females, 105 males (132 total)
Jupiter: 84 females, 37 males (121 total)
Saturn: 18 females, 8 males (26 total)
Uranus: Zero
Neptune: Eight males
A couple of our solar system’s dwarf planets also made appearances on the list:
Pluto: 11 males
Eris: 128 females, 26 males (154 total)
Of course it’s important to note that most of our solar system’s planets got their names from Roman and Greek gods and goddesses, so a love of space likely wasn’t the only motivation for new parents.
Last year, 332 parents used the name Artemis for their babies. According to baby name site Nameberry, Artemis is of Greek origin and means “safe” or “butcher.” It’s also the name of NASA’s high-profile mission to return humans to the moon.
And as a bonus fun-with-data note: the name Tesla has completely disappeared from SSA’s data. The name peaked in 2016 with 180 children given the moniker. It last appeared on the charts in 2023 when only 13 babies got the name.
For privacy purposes, the SSA only releases data on names given to at least five children. So maybe somewhere, one little Uranus is ruling the playground.
It's unfortunate how Uranus is now pronounced, both the vulgar and the official stressing YOOR-uh-nuhs/yoo-RAY-uhs sucks while the ancient pronunciation makes it a cool name, OO-rah-nooss/OO-rah-nuhs. Though the vulgar pronunciation has brought joy to generations of school children.
It could be worse, the astronomer who first discovered Uranus tried to name it George's Star (his patron was King George III) but no one wanted to go along with that.
It's unfortunate how Uranus is now pronounced, both the vulgar and the official stressing YOOR-uh-nuhs/yoo-RAY-uhs sucks while the ancient pronunciation makes it a cool name, OO-rah-nooss/OO-rah-nuhs. Though the vulgar pronunciation has brought joy to generations of school children.
The only two Cosmos that I am famillar with is that speedrunner that calls xerself Narcissa and that guy from Seinfeld. Nothing good can come from a nigga named Cosmo. People should give their children normal names. I've never understood why some people want their children to have unique and special names that nobody else has, because it normally just ends up sounding stupid.
Now compare them to popular moon names and see total lunar supremecy (seriously whoever names the moons has great taste):
Io
Ariel
Selene
Ganymede
Rhea
Larissa
Miranda
Charon
Nereid
Makemake and haumea. I like the Polynesian names
I’m looking for a song about Pluto I used to listen to the kids with but I can’t find it so have the Hoover Jam educating you about dwarf planets instead.
Now compare them to popular moon names and see total lunar supremecy (seriously whoever names the moons has great taste):
Io
Ariel
Selene
Ganymede
Rhea
Larissa
Miranda
Charon
Nereid
Yeah I was going to mention the different moon names, a lot of them are great names. Personally, I like Io, Rhea, Larissa, Miranda, Europa, Pandora, Thebe, and pretty much all the names of Uranus' moons (although I think the vast majority of them, if not all of them, were named after Shakespeare characters kek)
Yes, also I found out FamilySearch usually requires you to use the native language spelling of their name, so instead of looking up Muhammad, you have to either look up their ID (PZL1-D7X) or look up مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ
It's unfortunate how Uranus is now pronounced, both the vulgar and the official stressing YOOR-uh-nuhs/yoo-RAY-uhs sucks while the ancient pronunciation makes it a cool name, OO-rah-nooss/OO-rah-nuhs. Though the vulgar pronunciation has brought joy to generations of school children.
