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Akim

#4,708 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Joachim

Akim has been given to 813 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #4,708 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Akim, 2025

1 in 158,000

Akim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akim: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joachim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akim means

Akim is a form of Joachim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Akim → Joachim. The family’s meaning is “may Yahweh raise up”, recorded in English with the source elements yəhôyâqîm.

Origin, language, and formation

Akim is used in Pazeh and Sakizaya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joachim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sakizaya, Akim is pronounced /a.ˈkim/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 813 boys were recorded with the name Akim between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2023; its best national rank was #2,197 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,021 in 2020 to #4,708 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,332 in 2015 to #4,708 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 Akim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,708
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akim 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akim was born before 2004 — so the typical Akim is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
813
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Akim 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
+537
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−687
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,624
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.62×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2023 (33)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,197
1974

Spellings of Akim

Akim is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 52.9% against Akim's 0.07%.

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.

Where Akim is used

Across 1910–2025, Akim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 296,882 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Akim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akim around the world

Where Akim 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
    1996–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1959–2025
    #1,364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1951–1962
    #548
    in 1962

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Akim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,708
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 687
Best rank ever
#2,197
1974
Peak year
2023
33 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
813
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Akim

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

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Sibling names for Akim

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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