Achilleas

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Achille in FR France, US United States, CM Cameroon and 10 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Achilleas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name59 records spelled Achilleas2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Achilléas

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Achilleas 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 Latin, accusative feminine plural of achillēus

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Achilles Alferakib. 1846UAnot in their usual nameRussian composer (1846–1919)
• Achilleas Gerokostopoulosb. 1850GRGreek politician (1850–1900)
• Achilleas Tzartzanosb. 1873GRGreek philologist and linguist
• Achilles Papapetroub. 1907GRnot in their usual nameGreek physicist
• Achilleas Grammatikopoulosb. 1908GRGreek footballer (1908-2008)
• Achilleas K. Gerokostopoulosb. 1909GRGreek politician
• Achilleas Karamanlisb. 1929GRGreek politician
• Achilleas Aslanidisb. 1950GRGreek association football player
• Achilles Liarmakopoulosb. 1985GRnot in their usual nameGreek trombonist
• Achilleas Poungourasb. 1995GRGreek 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 68 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Achilleas?

We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Achilleas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Achilleas have the most bearers?

We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Achilleas in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled achille.

How common is Achilleas compared with other names?

In France, Achilleas is the 731st most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Achilleas a male or female name?

Achilleas 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.