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Joachim

#4,188 in 2025Boys' name

May Yahweh raise up

Joachim has been given to 1,203 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,188 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Joachim, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joachim: meaning, origin, and history

May Yahweh raise up

Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Latin

What Joachim means

Joachim means “may Yahweh raise up”, associated with yəhôyâqîm.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Derived from Latin Iōākīm, from Ancient Greek Ἰωακείμ (Iōakeím), Ἰωακίμ (Iōakím) (2 Kings 24:1), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹיָקִים (yəhôyâqîm, literally “may Yahweh raise up”). The Septuagint in 2 Kings 24 mentions "Ιωακιμ" and his son "Ιωαχιμ" (יהויכין), but the latter does not seem to be the source of the name Joachim, as in the Vulgate it is "Ioachin", and in Greek the father of Mary is Ιωακειμ, not Ιωαχιμ.

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Origin, language, and formation

Joachim is used in English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Latin.

Joachim comes through Latin Iōākīm, Ancient Greek Ἰωακείμ and Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹיָקִים.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joakim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Joachim is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯.ə.kɪm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,203 boys were recorded with the name Joachim between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,795 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,203 in 2020 to #4,188 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,822 in 2015 to #4,188 in 2025.

How common is Joachim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,188
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joachim 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joachim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joachims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joachim was born before 1993 — so the typical Joachim is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,043
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (221).

Is Joachim 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
+303
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+15
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−366
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.8%
Peak was 2006 (33)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,795
1928

Spellings of Joachim

Joachim is the most-used spelling, taking 55.5% of the 2,167 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Joachim is used

Across 1910–2025, Joachim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,048,095 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Joachim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joachim around the world

Where Joachim 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #379
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #468
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Joachim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 15
Best rank ever
#1,795
1928
Peak year
2006
33 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,203
Count in 2025
25

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