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The ACHILLES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 623 34399 0 2
United States (1880 census) 68 41251 0 1
Change since 1880 +555 +6852 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 149 9910 0.001 9
United Kingdom 81 24823 0 2
Top States for ACHILLES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 78 18024 0.000 4
New York 60 28605 0.000 3
Kansas 38 8174 0.001 14
Illinois 36 34298 0.000 3
Florida 35 40623 0.000 2
Top States for ACHILLES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 29 3248 0.005 48
New Hampshire 32 4854 0.003 26
Kansas 38 8174 0.001 14
Rhode Island 9 13876 0.001 9
Wyoming 4 13374 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ACHILLES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ACHILLES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ACHILLES in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ACHILLES by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ACHILLES

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the ACHILLES surname.

Ethnic distribution of ACHILLES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 574 92.13
Black/African American 15 2.41
Mixed Race 13 2.09
Asian/Pacific 10 1.61
White (Hispanic) 6 0.96
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.8

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ACHILLES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

ACHILLES is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of ACHILLES in historical publications

ACHILLES. An ancient family of this name bore two lions rampant endorsed, probably with reference to the lion-like acts of the classical hei'o. Encyc. Herald. In the H.R. the name is written A Chillis.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to ACHILLES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ACHILLES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ACHILLES

The following words are slight variants of ACHILLES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.