Given name & surname
Ales
“helper and defender of mankind”
In Finnish use, Ales is a short form of Alexander. One Greek interpretation is “helper and defender of mankind.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Finnish use, Ales is a short form of Alexander. One Greek interpretation is “helper and defender of mankind.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In Finnish use, Ales is a short form of Alexander. Alexander has been associated with Latin and Greek naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Ales is a short form of Alexander.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1987. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ales through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 361 as a first name in 2020; 839 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ales’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Ales is a short form of Alexander. In Basque usage, Ales has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Alejo. In English usage, Ales as a surname has a related form in ALESSI.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ales has relatives in 5 languages.
4 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ales
- Ales BialiatskiBelarusian activist, Nobel laureate (born 1962)
- Ales AdamovichSoviet Belarusian writer (1927–1994)
- Ales PushkinBelarusian artist (1965-2023)
- Aleś KarlukievičBelarusian writerborn 1964
- Ales PrudnikauBelarusian writer (1910–1941)
- Ales BachylaBelarusian poet (1918–1983)
- Ales ArkushBelarusian writerborn 1960
- Aleś Dudarspecialist in literature, translator and poet (1904-1937)
- Alieś HurloBelarusian writer, translator and poet (1892-1938)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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