Given name

Akhilles

Akhilles is used as a given name.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Akhilles isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Akhilles through the years

Babies since 1880
35
35 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2016
7 babies
2025
5
#12,079 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20192.9
Akhilles in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2015–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,079 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 6

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Akhilles, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Aqib

13Very rareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Aadhi

“child of the beginning”

13Very rareEasing

>99% boys

Modern

Adharsh

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Taves

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Aking

23RareCooling

>99% boys

Modern

Aamil

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Yassiel

14Very rareRising fast

>99% boys

Modern

Adidev

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Akhilles’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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