Joachim
Joachim was given to 25 boys in 2025, #4,188 among boys’ names; 1,203 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joachim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joachim mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joachim is “a male given name from Hebrew, always rare in English.” Its etymology gives the sense “may Yahweh raise up” (literally).
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.
/ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯.ə.kɪm/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joachim?
#4,188 among boys’ names, 2025
Joachim fell from #3,822 in 2015 to #4,188 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born held at 14.6 per million.
33 babies in 2006, the peak
Joachim peaked in 2006, when 33 boys were given it, #3,267 among boys’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #4,188 | 14.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,491 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,398 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,615 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,221 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,203 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,841 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,289 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,386 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,854 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,822 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,454 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,514 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,935 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,428 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,931 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,356 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 27 | #3,873 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,074 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,267 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,144 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,313 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,039 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,766 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,576 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,546 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,258 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,168 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,336 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,726 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,386 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,812 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,493 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,364 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,387 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,737 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,257 | 9.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,799 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,418 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,645 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,901 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,738 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,639 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,725 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,503 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,928 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,856 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,102 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,880 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,143 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,002 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,552 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,056 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,506 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,565 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,614 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,502 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,397 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,539 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,541 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,595 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,949 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,337 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,285 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,372 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,594 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,921 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,397 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,079 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,336 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,529 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,261 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,228 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,975 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,668 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,649 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,821 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,313 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,285 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,021 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,141 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,463 | 6.1 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,241 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,798 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,277 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,795 | 17.2 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,297 | 7.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,514 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,954 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,373 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,540 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,697 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,952 | 6.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,208 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,724 | 10.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,048 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,965 | 18.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Joachim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joachim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joachim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joachim, and how old are they?
An estimated 986 Americans named Joachim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 11 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,001 people named Joachim (3 women and girls, 1,998 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joachim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joachim and names like it
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joachim since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Joachim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Joachim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Joachim alive today were born 2013-2025.
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