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The first name 
Joachim

Joachim is a male first name.

Joachim – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Joachim in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Joachim in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Joachim by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Joachim ranks at #3,925. That means there are 3,924 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Joachim.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Joachim

Joachim -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Joachim your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Joachim has never ranked higher than position 1,472 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Joachim for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1928 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Joachim because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Joachim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - Looking for Joachim?

As in the last century, Joachim is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 22 times in the entire USA. So a Joachim of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Joachim -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Joachim is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 37 Americans in total bear this name. And these 37 men are located in only three states: California, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Joachim and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Joachim in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 750,947 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Joachim present.

Joachim has 7 letters 
and begins with a J

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.

With seven letters, the name Joachim has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Joachim

If your name is Joachim and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Joachim

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Joachim, you can simply say:

Joker

Orange

Apple

Cat

Hat

Igloo

Mouse

This is how the name Joachim is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Joachim in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Joachim

Joachim

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Joachim

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Joachim is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
O
A
C
H
I
M

Have you ever waved the name Joachim

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

J
O
A
C
H
I
M

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Joachim sounds like this: