Achille
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Achille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name. In French, recorded as From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 14K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Achille itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Achilleas in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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.
How Achille is read(measured from records)
Achille is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French65%
From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du grec Achilleus; héros de la guerre de Troie. Fête: 1er mai (saint Achille, selon les calendriers).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Origine grecque, d’Achileos; nom du demi-dieu Achille de la mythologie grecque.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du grec Akhilleus, nom du héros homérique; fêté le 12 mai (saint Achille).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Achille in English.
- Italian11%
forma italiana de Achilles
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Achille counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #69 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Achille | 37 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #528 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Achille | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 570 | Achille | 55 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Achille | 13 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 18K | Achille | 257 |
| BJ Benin | #73 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Achille | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | #654 | 851as Αχιλλεας | 1 in 1.5K | 851 | Achilleas | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 58 | 1 in 862K | 58 | — | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Achille 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.
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
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 18K | #86 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 570 | #62 |
| 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 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1949 | 20 | #625 |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Achille mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Akhilleus; classical Greek origin, etymology uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Achille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Achille in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled achille.
- 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.
- How common is the name Achille?
- In Spain, the national register counted 58 people named Achille, about 1 in 862 thousand residents.
- How common is Achille compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Achille is the 69th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Achille?
- In the etymology graph, Achilles, Achilleas and Achilleus are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Achille?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/achilleThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 69th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.