# Achilles (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/achilles/  
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 | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /əˈkɪliːz/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Achilleus, Akhilles, Akhilleus |
| US babies named this | 3,844 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,844 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 123, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 123 | 1,364 |
| 2012 | 148 | 1,207 |
| 2013 | 142 | 1,244 |
| 2014 | 171 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | 214 | 966 |
| 2016 | 227 | 932 |
| 2017 | 234 | 910 |
| 2018 | 257 | 857 |
| 2019 | 208 | 1,004 |
| 2020 | 192 | 1,051 |
| 2021 | 196 | 1,081 |
| 2022 | 189 | 1,121 |
| 2023 | 161 | 1,226 |
| 2024 | 165 | 1,220 |
| 2025 | 151 | 1,290 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 4 | 3,895 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,079 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,512 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 9 | 2,228 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1,859 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: أَخِيل
- Armenian: Աքիլլես
- Bulgarian: Ахил, Ахилес
- Catalan: Aquil·les
- Chinese: 阿喀琉斯, 阿基里斯
- Czech: Achilleus
- Danish: Achilleus
- Dutch: Achilles
- Esperanto: Aĥilo, Akilo
- Estonian: Achilleus
- Finnish: Akhilleus, Akilles
- French: Achille
- Georgian: აქილევსი
- German: Achilleus
- Greek: Αχιλλέας
- Hebrew: אכילס
- Hindi: अकिलीज़
- Hungarian: Akhilleusz
- Indonesian: Achilles
- Irish: Aichill

## People named Achilles

- Kullervo Manner, Finnish politician (1880-1939)
- Richard A. Ballinger, American politician (1858–1922)
- Émile Prisse d'Avennes, French Egyptologist (1807–1879)

## 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.