Akilles
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Achilles (Greek mythical hero)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ɐkilleʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Akilles is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Achilles (Greek mythical hero)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Akilles counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 245 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 212 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 129 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 5 | — | 1 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)Akilles is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, Achilles (hero in Greek mythology)
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)- Akilles Järvinenb. 1905FIFinnish athlete and decathlete (1905–1943)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 245 | #1,642 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 212 | #5,024 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 129 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 127 | #34,464 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 104 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 68 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 61 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 45 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Akilles mean, and where does it come from?
- Achilles (Greek mythical hero) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Akilles?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɐkilleʃ/; in Swedish /akiles/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Akilles a male or female name?
- Akilles is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Finland (DVV) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Akilles have the most bearers?
- Akilles is most frequently recorded in Finland.
What do you want to know about Akilles?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akillesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Akilles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.