Achille
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Achille is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Benin it is the 54th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain.
- CMCameroon1 in 1.5K◐
- CYCyprus1 in 1.5K
- FRFrance1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈22K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 249 ●
- 1 in 1.5K ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
27K records
Official registry-verified
Cyprus
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Achilleas in GR Greece, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 8 more, Αχιλλεας in CY Cyprus and Achilles in PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #731 | 18,225 | 18K rec. | 1 in 3.7K | 18K | Achille | 249 |
| US United States | — | 2,366 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 141K | 2.4K | Achille | 124 |
| GR Greece | #567 | 1,409 | 662 rec. | — | 54 | Achilleas | 97 |
| CM Cameroon | #59 | 1,318 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Achille | 35 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,177 | 1.2K rec. | — | 5 | Achille | 52 |
| CY Cyprus | #194 | 851△ | 172 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 851 | Αχιλλεας | 43 |
| IT Italy | — | 609 | 575 rec. | — | 570 | Achille | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 396 | 277 rec. | — | listed | Achilleas | 44 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #376 | 380 | 1 rec. | — | 5 | Achille | 2 |
| MQ Martinique | #414 | 335 | 5 rec. | — | 5 | Achille | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 324 | 0 rec. | 1 in 653K | 324 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 317 | 264 rec. | — | 7 | Achilleas | 46 |
Roughly 18K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 3.7K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French82K81%
- English5.9K6%
- Italian5.2K5%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)1.3K1%
- Spanish1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 81,938 | 81% |
| English | 5,864 | 6% |
| Italian | 5,166 | 5% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 1,331 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,040 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Achille is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek Achilleus, hero of Homer’s Iliad, also the name of one or two minor saints.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Du grec Achilleus; héros de la guerre de Troie. Fête: 1er mai (saint Achille, selon les calendriers).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Origine grecque, d’Achileos; nom du demi-dieu Achille de la mythologie grecque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Du grec Akhilleus, nom du héros homérique; fêté le 12 mai (saint Achille).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Italian, forma italiana de Achilles
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1907 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 10 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1915 | 5 |
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 54 years between 1900–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Victor de Broglieb. 1785FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician (1785-1870)
- François Achille Bazaineb. 1811FRFrench general (1811-1888)
- Claude Debussyb. 1862FRnot in their usual nameFrench classical composer (1862–1918)
- Achille Staraceb. 1889ITItalian Fascist general (1889-1945)
- Achille Van Ackerb. 1898BEBelgian former prime minister (1898-1975)
- Fernand Braudelb. 1902FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian and leader of the Annales School
- Achille Compagnonib. 1914ITItalian mountain climber and skier (1914-2009)
- Achille Castiglionib. 1918ITItalian architect and designer (1918–2002)
- Herman Van Rompuyb. 1947BEnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council (born 1947)
- Achille Emanab. 1982CMCameroonian 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●
Attested in 71 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 18K | #86 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 783 | #31,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 719 | #32,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 596 | #35,666 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 570 | #62 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #22,040 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 146 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 100 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 80 | #5,055 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 58 | #24,554 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 45 | #13,876 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43 | #9,442 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 359 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Achille?
- We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Achille (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Achille have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Achille in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled achille.
- How common is Achille compared with other names?
- In France, Achille is the 731st most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Achille a male or female name?
- Achille 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 Achille mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Achille” — the 731st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.