Achilles
#1,290 for boys in 2025, 151 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 257 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,844since 1912
Achilles over time
Rank among boys' names. Achilles has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,290 | 151 |
| 2024 | #1,220 | 165 |
| 2023 | #1,226 | 161 |
| 2022 | #1,121 | 189 |
| 2021 | #1,081 | 196 |
| 2020 | #1,051 | 192 |
| 2019 | #1,004 | 208 |
| 2018 | #857 | 257 |
| 2017 | #910 | 234 |
| 2016 | #932 | 227 |
| 2015 | #966 | 214 |
| 2014 | #1,117 | 171 |
| 2013 | #1,243 | 142 |
| 2012 | #1,207 | 148 |
| 2011 | #1,364 | 123 |
| 2010 | #1,481 | 110 |
| 2009 | #1,594 | 100 |
| 2008 | #1,343 | 128 |
| 2007 | #1,445 | 111 |
| 2006 | #1,091 | 161 |
| 2005 | #1,196 | 133 |
| 2004 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #6,316 | 10 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | — | |
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| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
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| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #2,101 | 13 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,703 | 10 |
| 1926 | #2,566 | 11 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
| 1923 | #2,020 | 16 |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,986 | 9 |
| 1920 | #3,208 | 8 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #2,458 | 10 |
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| 1912 | #1,885 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Achilles! It came in at #1,885, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Achilles is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#955 · 1 in 9,958
- California#956 · 1 in 11,553
- New York#1,125 · 1 in 10,912
Best ever in a state: #219 in Hawaii, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #955 | 19 | 1 in 9,958 |
| California | #956 | 22 | 1 in 11,553 |
| New York | #1,125 | 10 | 1 in 10,912 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Achilles
- 70 spots since 2024 (#1,220 → #1,290)
- 239 spots since 2020 (#1,051 → #1,290)
- 324 spots since 2015 (#966 → #1,290)
- Biggest jump: 151 spots in 2015 (#1,117 → #966)
- Biggest drop: 147 spots in 2019 (#857 → #1,004)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2018 at #857 (257 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2015–2018
- Highest: 1 in 7,067 boys born in 2018 were named Achilles (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,312 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.7% of all boys named Achilles (1,834) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 43 | #1,885 (1912) | #3,094 |
| 1920s | 78 | #2,020 (1923) | #3,201 |
| 1930s | 23 | #2,101 (1932) | #3,127 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,459 (1940) | #3,459 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,681 (1950) | #3,681 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 29 | #3,445 (1973) | #4,191 |
| 1980s | 29 | #5,003 (1982) | #6,229 |
| 1990s | 43 | #6,128 (1992) | #8,040 |
| 2000s | 696 | #1,091 (2006) | #4,163 |
| 2010s | 1,834 | #857 (2018) | #1,108 |
| 2020s | 1,054 | #1,051 (2020) | #1,165 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Achilles in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 15,939 of them was named Achilles, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,334Marek129
- #1,334Tylan129
- #1,334Yash129
- #1,343Achilles128
- #1,343Brighton128
- #1,343Carlton128
- #1,343Kevon128
- #1,348Arman127
- #1,348Arnold127
- #1,348Francesco127
Tied with 4 names at #1,343; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.