Joaquim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Joaquim (see Joachim)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joaquim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 266(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 800
- BRBrazil1 in 891
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 266 (inferred from the name graph)
237,723 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Joaquim (see Joachim).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joaquim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #72 | 237,723 | 1 in 891 | 238K | Joaquim | 189 |
| AO Angola | #13 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 800 | — | Joaquim | 51 |
| PT Portugal | #44 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 266 | listed | Joaquim | 184 |
| FR France | — | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 4.5K | Joaquim | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 7,490 | 1 in 6.7K | 7.8K | Joaquim | 122 |
| CH Switzerland | #706 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 59 | Joaquim | 44 |
237,723 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Joaquim is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Portuguese form of JOACHIM .
as a word
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)
- Jehoiakimb. 634ILnot in their usual nameEighteenth King of Judah
- Machado de Assisb. 1839BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian writer (1839–1908)
- Joaquín Sorollab. 1863ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1863–1923)
- Alvaro Sizab. 1933PTnot in their usual namePortuguese architect (1933-)
- Joaquim Chissanob. 1939MZ2nd President of Mozambique
- Joaquim de Almeidab. 1957PTPortuguese actor
- Joaquim Torra i Plab. 1962ESformer president of Catalonia (born 1962)
- Joaquim Cruzb. 1963BRBrazilian middle-distance runner (track and field), coach
- Joaquim Dos Santosb. 1977PTPortuguese animator and producer
- Quim Gutiérrezb. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
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 72 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 238K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 237K | #131 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 215K | #241 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 37K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.8K | #309 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.5K | #676 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 4.5K | #818 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #131 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- In which country does Joaquim have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 238 thousand people named Joaquim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joaquim.
- What does the name Joaquim mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Joaquim (see Joachim). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Joaquim a male or female name?
- Joaquim 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.
- What are other forms of the name Joaquim?
- In the etymology graph, Jo, Joaquin and Joachim are forms of the same name in other languages; Quim, Ximo and Chimo are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Joaquim?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 237,723 people named Joaquim in 2022, about 1 in 891 residents.
- How common is Joaquim compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Joaquim is the 72nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joaquim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joaquimThe 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, “Joaquim” — the 72nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.