Achilles
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Achilles is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 140K
- NLNetherlands1 in 77K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
2,379 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Greek hero or saint name Achilles
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Achilles is read(measured from records)
Achilles is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Homeric hero; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese16%
Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Aquiles.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish9.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Achilles in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Achilles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,379 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Achilles | 175 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Achilles | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 324 | 1 in 653K | 324 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 223 | 1 in 77K | 205 | — | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Achilles | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 84 | 1 in 121K | 84 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 182K | 19 | — | 7 |
2,379 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Achilles is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from the Greek hero or saint name Achilles
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from the Homeric name Achilles
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In csb, Achilles (mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Achilleus Tatiosb. 200EGnot in their usual nameancient Greek novellist
- Achilles Gasserb. 1505DEGerman physician and astrologer
- James Achilles Kirkpatrickb. 1764GBAdministrator in British India
- Émile Prisse d'Avennesb. 1807FRnot in their usual nameFrench egyptologist (1807-1879)
- Achilles Alferakib. 1846UARussian composer (1846–1919)
- Richard A. Ballingerb. 1858USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1858–1922)
- Kullervo Mannerb. 1880FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician (1880-1939)
- Achilles Papapetroub. 1907GRGreek physicist
- Achilles Liarmakopoulosb. 1985GRGreek trombonist
- Achilleas Poungourasb. 1995GRnot in their usual nameGreek association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Achilles come from?
- from the Greek hero or saint name Achilles Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Achilles a male or female name?
- Achilles is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Achilles mean?
- In English, A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
- What are other forms of the name Achilles?
- In the etymology graph, Achille is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Achilles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Achilles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled achilles.
- How common is the name Achilles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,379 people named Achilles in 2020, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Achilles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.