Joachim
About 1,203 American babies have been named Joachim since 1912, most of them around 2006. In 2025 it ranked 4,139th. About 990 Joachims are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Joachim
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,203
- Estimated living today
- 990
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 3,227th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,139th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Joachims are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,203 babies given the name since 1912, about 990 are alive — 82 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
from Ancient Greek Ἰωακείμ, Ἰωακίμ (2 Kings 24:1), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹיָקִים. The Septuagint in 2 Kings 24 mentions "Ιωακιμ" and his son "Ιωαχιμ" , 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Joachims
- Joachim Gauck (born 1940)German Protestant pastor and politician, Federal President of Germnay 2012–2017
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946)German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany
- Joachim Löw (born 1960)German footballer and manager
- Joachim Murat (1767–1815)Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves, The king of Naples
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library
- Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560)French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade
- Joachim Frank (born 1940)German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Joachim Peiper (1915–1976)SS officer and convicted Nazi war criminal
People named Joachim with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joachim is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Joachim peaked:
Joachim elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Joachim | 14,945 | 241st |
| Norway boys | Joachim | 3,860 | 41st |
| Belgium boys | Joachim | 1,675 | 91st |
| Poland boys | Joachim | 1,613 birth registrations | 133rd |
| Denmark boys | Joachim | 1,377 | 36th |
| Switzerland boys | Joachim | 278 | 455th |
| England and Wales boys | Joachim | 263 | 1,517th |
| France girls | Joachim | 160 | 622nd |
| Ireland boys | Joachim | 19 | 660th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joachim: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Joachim | 73 | 0.006% | 641st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Joachim | 204 | 0.047% | 136th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Joachim | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joachim is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.05% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Joachim: rank by region
In 2025, Joachim was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Joachim | 317 | 8 |
In 2013, Joachim was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Joachim | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Joachim was given 2 times or more in 11 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Joachim | 188 | 4 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Joachim | 122 | 4 |
| Lubelskie | Joachim | 125 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Joachim | 148 | 7 |
| Mazowieckie | Joachim | 189 | 7 |
| Podkarpackie | Joachim | 104 | 7 |
| Podlaskie | Joachim | 113 | 3 |
| Pomorskie | Joachim | 179 | 3 |
| Śląskie | Joachim | 155 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Joachim | 136 | 9 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Joachim | 168 | 2 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Joachim appears in the lists for Province of Liège (166th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Joachim by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 578th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Joachim among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Joachim | 1,326 | 3,475 |
| Finland boys | Joachim | 273 | 644 |
| the Netherlands girls | Joachim | — | 68 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Joachim lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 200 men called Joachim were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Joachim | 26 | 0.049 | 1,624 |
| Balears, Illes | Joachim | 25 | 0.040 | 1,431 |
| Málaga | Joachim | 25 | 0.029 | 1,660 |
| Palmas, Las | Joachim | 14 | 0.024 | 2,896 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Joachim | 23 | 0.023 | 2,416 |
| Girona | Joachim | 6 | 0.014 | 3,053 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Joachim against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.