Joachim
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Hebrew Jehojakim 'YHWH establishes'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/joʔaxɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joachim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 345(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 1.8K
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Joachim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Hebrew Jehojakim 'YHWH establishes'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Joachim is read(measured from records)
Joachim is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German77%
from Hebrew Jehojakim 'YHWH establishes'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
from Hebrew yehōyāqīm 'Yahweh raises up'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- French8.9%
name Yoyakim ‘God has granted (a son)’, which occurs in the Bible (Neh. 12: 10) and was also borne, according to medieval legend, by the father of the Virgin Mary.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Du nom hébreu Yəhôyāqîm « Yahweh a élevé, mis debout ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Origine hébraïque, « Yahvé s’est levé ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Joachim in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Joachim, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joachim counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #55 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 345 | — | Joachim | 282 |
| US United States | — | 83,556as Kerry | 1 in 4K | 430K | Joachim | 264 |
| PL Poland | #601 | 10,818 | 1 in 3.5K | 11K | Joachim | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 15K | Joachim | 6 |
| SE Sweden | #709 | 5,580 | 1 in 1.8K | 5.6K | Joachim | 81 |
| AT Austria | #267 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1K | Joachim | 113 |
| NO Norway | #819 | 3,779 | 1 in 1.4K | 14K | Joachim | 79 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,391 | 1 in 2.5K | 2.4K | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Joachim is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Hebrew personal name Yoyakim ‘God has granted (a son)’, which occurs in the Bible (Nehemiah 12:10) and was also home, according to medieval legend, by the father of the Virgin Mary. SSESIIISEB A bearer of the name from the Dordogne region of France who arrived in Canada in 1665 is documented in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, in 1679, with the secondary surname Laverdure.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joachim du Bellayb. 1522FRFrench writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)
- Johann Joachim Winckelmannb. 1717DEGerman art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)
- Joachim Muratb. 1767FRGrand Duke of Berg and Cleves, The king of Naples (1767-1815)
- Joachim von Ribbentropb. 1893DEGerman Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- Joachim Peiperb. 1915DESS officer and convicted Nazi war criminal (1915–1976)
- Olof Palmeb. 1927SEnot in their usual nameSwedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
- Joachim Gauckb. 1940DEGerman Protestant pastor and politician, Federal President of Germnay 2012–2017 (born 1940)
- Joachim Streichb. 1951DEEast German association football player and manager (1951–2022)
- Joachim Löwb. 1960DEGerman footballer and manager (born 1960)
- Prince Joachim of Denmarkb. 1969DKDanish prince (born 1969)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 101 sources across 49 countries.
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joachim mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew Jehojakim 'YHWH establishes' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Joachim?
- A machine transcription gives /joʔaxɪm/ (IPA) for German.
- What are other forms of the name Joachim?
- In the etymology graph, Jo, Joaquin and Joaquim are forms of the same name in other languages; Achim is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Joachim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Joachim in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joachim.
- Is Joachim a male or female name?
- Joachim is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Joachim?
- In Poland, the national register counted 10,818 people named Joachim in 2026, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Joachim compared with other names?
- In Germany, Joachim is the 55th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joachimThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joachim” — the 55th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.