Joachim
Masculine · “the Lord raises up”
Joachim is a Hebrew sentence — the Lord raises up — and the tradition gives it to Mary's father, though no scripture names him.
How old is the name Joachim?
Joachim first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Joachim alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 1,000 people named Joachim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Joachim most popular?
Joachim peaked in 1928, reaching #1760 nationally. Today it ranks #4139, 2,379 places below that high. See the whole 1928 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yehoyaqim to Joachim
The story of Joachim
The canonical Gospels never name Mary's parents; the second-century Protoevangelium of James supplies Joachim and Anne, and the tradition took hold so firmly that they have feast days, churches and an enormous body of art. Joachim was well used across Catholic Europe and gave the German Joachim, Spanish Joaquín and Portuguese Joaquim. It reaches American records with German and French families.
Meaning
the Lord raises up, establishes
From Hebrew Yehoyaqim, joining a form of the divine name to a verb meaning to raise or establish; a king of Judah of that name appears in the Hebrew Bible, and the same verb gives Jehoiachin.
How the name formed
- Yehoyaqim
- Ioakeim
- Joachim
Related forms: Joachim · Joaquín · Joachim · Yehoyaqim
Pronouncing Joachim
YOH-ah-khim
Three syllables, first stressed in German. English speakers say JOH-uh-kim.
Nicknames for Joachim
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 201528 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1760reached in 1928
- Change vs 2023
- +4.2%25 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Joachim in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Joachim in German — same name
- Joaquín in Spanish — same name
- Joachim in French — same name
- Yehoyaqim in Hebrew — same name
Joachims among us
people named Joachim are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was named Joachim
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sebastiano test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Joachim's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sebastiano climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sebastiano's path sketches the road Joachim is walking now.
Joachim sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Joachim is headed
Joachim should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Joachim beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Joachim in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that forms a complete sentence.
- Achim and Kim are both established short forms in their own right.
- Recognized across Germany, France, Scandinavia and the Iberian world.
- The German and English pronunciations differ at the first consonant entirely.
- Seven letters and three syllables is a fair amount for early handwriting.
- The figure it belongs to is traditional rather than scriptural.
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Frequently asked
- How many Joachims are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Joachim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Joachim in 2025?
- Joachim ranks #4139 among US boy names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Joachim?
- About 1 in every 68,323 US boys born in 2025 was named Joachim — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Joachim with classmates?
- Joachim will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Joachim
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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