About the name Achilles
Achilles belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Achilles first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #856 in 2018, and in 2024 164 babies received the name — 3,691 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.