Joakim

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Joakim is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 256◐
  • NONorway1 in 778
  • FIFinland1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈56K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
153 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 256 ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Joakim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#5739,929△15K rec.1 in 25640KJoakim153
NO Norway#1557,028△3.5K rec.1 in 77827KJoakim85
FI Finland#5445,205△521 rec.1 in 1.1K6KJoakim44
FR France—1,615△1 rec.1 in 42K1.6K—1
DK Denmark#4441,566△658 rec.1 in 3.7K1.6KJoakim96
DE Germany—646541 rec.—1Joakim64
BJ Benin#14512488 rec.——Joakim11
GB United Kingdom—503365 rec.——Joakim37
AU Australia—407385 rec.—1Joakim44
US United States—3412.7K rec.1 in 975K341Joakim107
CA Canada—318127 rec.—5Joakim23
IN India—261247 rec.——Joakim9

Roughly 40K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 256). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish27K23%
  • Norwegian Bokmål27K23%
  • Swedish19K16%
  • French9.8K8%
  • Danish7.6K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish26,80423%
Norwegian Bokmål26,52823%
Swedish19,08116%
French9,7738%
Danish7,6176%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Joakim is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name15K records spelled Joakim8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jo-Akim, Joakím, Joakìm

  • Croatian given name1.7K records spelled Joakim20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Poland, Sweden, North Macedonia

    Languages: Croatian, Polish, Macedonian

    Also written Joachim, Јоаким, Yoakim, Йоаким, Иоаким

  • a separate given name1.5K records spelled Joakim2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Jöakįm

  • a separate given name821 records spelled Joakim3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, Norway, United States

    Also written Jóakim, Joákim

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0100200300400197019801990200020102020375 · 1995

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Joakim in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1967–2025
Yearrecords
19674
19698
19706
197115
197228
197344
197438
197542
197659
197756
197852
197954
198075
198193
198273
1983123
1984146
1985129
1986181
1987222
1988241
1989263
1990333
1991349
1992336
1993327
1994330
1995375
1996328
1997283
1998261
1999248
2000226
2001240
2002203
2003165
2004149
2005123
2006137
2007112
2008100
200995
201062
201168
201258
201347
201438
201538
201637
201728
201823
201930
202019
202111
20226
202315
202413
202515

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 58 years between 1967–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Joakim Donner, b. 1926Jo Bonnier, b. 1930Joey Tempest, b. 1963Joakim Nyström, b. 1963Joakim Nätterqvist, b. 1974Joakim Persson, b. 1975Joakim Soria, b. 1984Joakim Noah, b. 1985Oscar Wendt, b. 1985Joakim Mæhle, b. 1997

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●

Attested in 60 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Joakim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—40K#101
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—27K#165
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202026K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20257K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—6K#549
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.2K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.6K#1,596
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.6K#254
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020341#26,868
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021124#1,472
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021111—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—99#4,438

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 372 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Joakim?
We estimate roughly 56 thousand people bear Joakim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Joakim have the most bearers?
We estimate about 40 thousand people bear Joakim in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, 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.
How common is Joakim compared with other names?
In Sweden, Joakim is the 57th most common given name of 36,824 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.
What does the name Joakim mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Joachim
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 57th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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