In a community-post snapshot dated January 1, 2026, Destiel leads the reported all-time AO3 ship ranking with 125,316 works. The list below ranks ten relationship tags by the totals reported in that post; it is not an official AO3 leaderboard or a live count.
The 10 ships with the highest reported totals
The figures and fandom labels below come from a Reddit community post by Zestyclose_Yam3330, dated January 1, 2026. The post does not describe a collection or verification method, so treat these as attributed snapshot counts rather than independently verified totals.
| Rank | Ship and relationship | Reported works | Fandom |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Destiel — Dean Winchester/Castiel | 125,316 | Supernatural |
| 2 | Drarry — Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter | 83,370 | Harry Potter |
| 3 | Sterek — Stiles Stilinski/Derek Hale | 76,909 | Teen Wolf |
| 4 | Johnlock — John Watson/Sherlock Holmes | 76,261 | Sherlock Holmes |
| 5 | Ineffable Husbands — Aziraphale/Crowley | 75,598 | Good Omens |
| 6 | Stucky — Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes | 71,060 | Marvel |
| 7 | Wolfstar — Remus Lupin/Sirius Black | 68,565 | Harry Potter |
| 8 | Bakudeku — Katsuki Bakugo/Izuku Midoriya | 61,520 | My Hero Academia |
| 9 | Buddie — Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz | 50,452 | 9-1-1 |
| 10 | Wangxian — Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian | 49,990 | Mo Dao Zu Shi |
What these rankings measure—and what they do not
A total is different from annual growth
This list presents reported totals associated with relationship tags at one point in time. It does not rank ships by how many works they gained during a particular year. The independent AO3 Ship Stats Year In Review: 2025 instead tracked the pairing tags with the greatest increase in public works from January 1, 2025 through January 4, 2026. Its author describes the measure as “the greatest gain in total public fanworks posted on Archive Of Our Own” during that interval. That annual-growth ranking answers a different question from an all-time-total snapshot.
“Ship” can refer to different relationship tags
In common fandom usage, “ship” usually means a pairing fans support or write about. AO3 relationship tags can represent romantic or sexual relationships, as well as platonic or familial ones. The Ship Stats author notes that AO3 uses a slash for romantic or sexual relationships and an ampersand for platonic or familial relationships. The community post’s top ten is presented as a ship list; it should not be taken as a complete ranking of every kind of relationship tag.
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Collection methods affect comparisons
The annual Ship Stats project documents spam-detection adjustments: its author says 9,135 works were deducted from James Potter/Lily Evans Potter’s “Works Gained” score. That adjustment applies to the project’s annual growth metric; it does not verify or explain how the January 1 community snapshot’s lifetime totals were collected. Without a stated method for that snapshot, its figures should be compared cautiously with other lists.
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The Organization for Transformative Works announced that AO3 had reached 17 million fanworks on March 6, 2026. That archive-wide milestone gives scale, but it is not evidence for any individual ship count or its position in this ranking. The January 1, 2026 post remains a dated community report, not a current live leaderboard.
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