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Achim

#10,709 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Achim has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #10,709 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Achim, 2025

1 in 553,000

Achim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Achim: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

German

What Achim means

Achim has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Achim

A separate documented entry treats Achim as a short form of Joachim. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Achim records a proposed meaning of he will establish.

Origin, language, and formation

Achim is used in English and German. Its origins include German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joachim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Achim is pronounced /ˈaxiːm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Achim between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,709 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Achim?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,709
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Achim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Achim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Achims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Achim was born before 2023 — so the typical Achim is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
81.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
27
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Achim rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+255
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,709
2025

Spellings of Achim

Achim is not the most common spelling — Archie is, with 61.8% against Achim's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Achim around the world

Where Achim ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2025
    #896
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1965–2025
    #5,603
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1961–1962
    #548
    in 1962

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Achim by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,709
2025
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Achim

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AcharyAchyuthAchrafShahimAchaiAchyutNahimAchintyaJahimSahimRaahimBrahimAcheronAshimAchilleAchilleusElohimAchaiusIbrohimAchilleasRashimSeraphimFahimHaashim

Sibling names for Achim

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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