Given name & surname
Achille
“lip”·“without lips”
Achille is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in French and Italian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Achille is possibly built from elements meaning “lip” and “without lips”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Achille is a variant of Achilles. An origin associated with Achilles is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Achilles, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓χῐλλεύς.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1911. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Achille through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 402
- 402 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1924
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,256 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,256 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1924. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 455 as a first name in 2020; 783 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Achille’s family of names
In Italian usage, Achille has a diminutive in Achillina. Achille developed from Achilles. In French usage, Achille has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Aquiles.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Achille has relatives in 5 languages.
5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AquilesGalician
- Akhillesequivalent
- AchilleusGerman
- Akillesequivalent
- Achilliequivalent
- AĥiloEsperanto
- Ахиллесequivalent
- Αχιλλέαςequivalent
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People named Achille
- Achille EmanáCameroonian association football playerborn 1982
- Achille ValenciennesFrench zoologist, ichthyologist, and malacologist (1794–1865)
- Achille Van AckerBelgian former prime minister (1898-1975)
- Achille MbembeCameroonian philosopher and political scientist (born 1957)
- Achille CompagnoniItalian mountain climber and skier (1914-2009)
- Achille SilvestriniCatholic cardinal (1923-2019)
- Achille DevériaFrench painter (1800–1857)
- Gustave LansonFrench historian and literary critic (1857-1934)
- Achille RichardFrench botanist (1794-1852)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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