Achilles
13
Babies in 2024
+225%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 13
+18%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Achilles
Achilles is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (13) are up 225% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Achilles reached its peak in 2022, when 13 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,781 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 18 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 118 boys have been officially registered with the name Achilles in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 88 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4 in 2014 and ending at 13 in 2024.