Meaning not yet researched.
Achilles: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 151 in 2025. Its best rank was #857 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #857 in 2018; #1,290 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Achilles in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,290 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #857.
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Achilles: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 151 boys in 2025. Peak: #857 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 257 (2018).
In 2025, 151 US boys were named Achilles, making it the 1,290th most common boys’ name of the year, down 70 places from #1,220 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 165 boys named Achilles in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #857, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 257. For comparison, it was #966 in 2015 and #3,684 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Achilles in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 3,844 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,834 babies named Achilles.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,980 US boys were named Achilles; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,312 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Achilles ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #937 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Aquiles, Achille and Achilleus are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aquiles (646), Achille (402), Achilleus (105), Achillies (98), Akilles (54), Akhilles (35), Akhilleus (17), Achilleas (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Achilles in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 8 | #937 | #988 |
| Indiana | 5 | #949 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,056 | #911 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,094 | #851 |
| California | 18 | #1,120 | #844 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,135 | #718 |
| New York | 7 | #1,414 | #895 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 151 | #1,290 |
| 2024 | — | — | 165 | #1,220 |
| 2023 | — | — | 161 | #1,226 |
| 2022 | — | — | 189 | #1,121 |
| 2021 | — | — | 196 | #1,081 |
| 2020 | — | — | 192 | #1,051 |
| 2019 | — | — | 208 | #1,004 |
| 2018 | — | — | 257 | #857 |
| 2017 | — | — | 234 | #910 |
| 2016 | — | — | 227 | #932 |
| 2015 | — | — | 214 | #966 |
| 2014 | — | — | 171 | #1,117 |
| 2013 | — | — | 142 | #1,244 |
| 2012 | — | — | 148 | #1,207 |
| 2011 | — | — | 123 | #1,364 |
| 2010 | — | — | 110 | #1,481 |
| 2009 | — | — | 100 | #1,594 |
| 2008 | — | — | 128 | #1,343 |
| 2007 | — | — | 111 | #1,445 |
| 2006 | — | — | 161 | #1,091 |
| 2005 | — | — | 133 | #1,196 |
| 2004 | — | — | 32 | #3,077 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #9,592 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #8,461 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,540 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,321 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #8,718 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,644 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,285 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #8,876 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #6,975 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,709 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,133 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #6,945 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,429 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,530 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,008 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,258 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,942 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #3,944 |
| 1973 | — | — | 9 | #3,446 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,444 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,138 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,684 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,462 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,520 |
| 1932 | — | — | 13 | #2,101 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,765 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,560 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,703 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,568 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,198 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,260 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,022 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,307 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #2,987 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,736 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,369 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,219 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,898 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,459 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,886 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).