Joakim
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joakim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim.
- SESweden1 in 256(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 778
- DKDenmark1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 256 (inferred from the name graph)
39,929 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joakim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #58 | 39,929 | 1 in 256 | 40K | Joakim | 175 |
| BJ Benin | #15 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 670 | — | Joakim | 11 |
| NO Norway | #141 | 7,028 | 1 in 778 | 27K | Joakim | 102 |
| FI Finland | #535 | 5,205 | 1 in 1.1K | 6K | Joakim | 56 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Joakim | 12 |
| DK Denmark | #366 | 1,566 | 1 in 3.7K | 1.6K | Joakim | 100 |
39,929 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joakim Donnerb. 1926FIFinnish geologist
- Jo Bonnierb. 1930SEnot in their usual nameSwedish racing driver
- Joey Tempestb. 1963SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
- Joakim Nyströmb. 1963SESwedish tennis player
- Joakim Nätterqvistb. 1974SESwedish actor
- Joakim Perssonb. 1975SESwedish footballer
- Joakim Soriab. 1984MXMexican baseball player
- Joakim Noahb. 1985USAmerican–French basketball player
- Oscar Wendtb. 1985SEnot in their usual nameSwedish association football player
- Joakim Mæhleb. 1997DKDanish association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40K | #101 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 27K | #165 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 26K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 7K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6K | #275 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5.2K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.6K | #254 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 15 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,586 |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #29 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1968 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Joakim mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Joakim?
- In the etymology graph, Jo, Joaquin and Joaquim are forms of the same name in other languages; Kim and Aki are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Joakim?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 39,929 people named Joakim, about 1 in 256 residents.
- How common is Joakim compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Joakim is the 58th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
- Is Joakim a male or female name?
- Joakim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Joakim have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Joakim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joakim.
- Where is Joakim most common?
- Joakim is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 256 people carrying it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joakimThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Joakim” — the 58th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.