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Joaquim

#4,189 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Joachim

Joaquim has been given to 964 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #4,189 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Joaquim, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joaquim: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joachim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joaquim means

Joaquim is a form of Joachim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Joaquim is used in Catalan and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joachim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Joaquim is pronounced [ʒu.əˈkim].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 964 boys were recorded with the name Joaquim between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,579 in 1940.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,964 in 2020 to #4,189 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,959 in 2015 to #4,189 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 Joaquim?

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
#4,189
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joaquim 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 Joaquim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joaquims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joaquim was born before 2006 — so the typical Joaquim is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
851
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Choose a decade

2010s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (230).

Is Joaquim 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
−263
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−225
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+770
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2017 (40)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,579
1940

Spellings of Joaquim

Joaquim is not the most common spelling — Joaquin is, with 90.7% against Joaquim's 2.5%.

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 Joaquim is used

Across 1910–2025, Joaquim was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 268,195 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Joaquim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joaquim around the world

Where Joaquim 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
    2003–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2021–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1913–2025
    #867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Joaquim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,189
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 225
Best rank ever
#2,579
1940
Peak year
2017
40 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
964
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Joaquim

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

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Sibling names for Joaquim

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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