Achilles
About 3,844 American babies have been named Achilles since 1912, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 1,290th. About 3,700 Achilleses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Achilles
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,844
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 857th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,290th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Achilleses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,844 babies given the name since 1912, about 3,700 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Achilless
- Achilles Tatius (200–300)ancient Greek novellist
- Achilles Alferaki (1846–1919)Russian composer
People named Achilles with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Achilles is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Achilles is most concentrated in Nevada (4.7×), Arizona (3.7×), Hawaii (3.7×), Florida (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Achilles peaked:
Achilles elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Achilles | 237 | 466th |
| England and Wales boys | Achilles | 123 | 1,781st |
| France boys | Achilles | 110 | 2,978th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Achilles: rank by region
In 2025, Achilles was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Achilles | 376 | 15 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Achilles appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (251st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Achilles by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 593rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Achilles among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Achilles | 6 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.