# Achille (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/achille/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 402 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 402 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 40, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5 | 4,909 |
| 1981 | 5 | 6,274 |
| 1986 | 5 | 6,731 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,125 |
| 1999 | 5 | 9,929 |
| 2003 | 5 | 10,923 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11,491 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,514 |
| 2010 | 6 | 10,781 |
| 2017 | 7 | 9,715 |
| 2019 | 6 | 10,825 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,623 |
| 2021 | 8 | 8,842 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,321 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,256 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2,960 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,275 |

## People named Achille

- Achille Emaná, Cameroonian association football player
- Achille Valenciennes, French zoologist, ichthyologist, and malacologist (1794–1865)
- François Achille Bazaine, French general (1811-1888)
- Achille Van Acker, Belgian former prime minister (1898-1975)
- Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist (born 1957)
- Achille Silvestrini, Catholic cardinal (1923-2019)
- Achille Devéria, French painter (1800–1857)
- Achille Richard, French botanist (1794-1852)
- Joseph Achille Le Bel, French chemist (1847-1930)
- Achille Guenée, French lawyer and entomologist (1809–1880)
- Denis Jean Achille Luchaire, French historian (1846–1908)
- Achille Locatelli, Catholic cardinal (1856-1935)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.