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Achim

#896 in England and Wales in 2025

Where Achim stands

England & Wales register · 2019–2025

#896boys’ names · E&W 2025

Achim was the 896th most registered boys' name in England and Wales in 2025, on 35 births.

peak 2023 · 38201920222025

Its moment was 2023, when 38 babies were given it.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

#896E&W rank, 2025 (boys)
35E&W births in 2025
#843its best E&W rank, in 2023
2023peak year — 38 births
27US births since 2017
183E&W births, 2019–2025
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How Achim's figures are worked out

  1. Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
  2. Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
  3. The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
  4. The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
  5. A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Achim was under the floor in no year of its E&W record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
reporting floor (share) = 3 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000

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Achim in the United States

18801900192019401960198020002020NOT PUBLISHED — BELOW THE 5-BIRTH FLOOR0.00.20.4
Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 5-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Achim in the United States, 1880–2025

Between 2019 and 2025 the name has been rising — up 224% as a share of boys' births.

SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Achim in New Zealand

Achim never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.

SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Achim in England & Wales

In England and Wales, Achim was registered 183 times between 2019 and 2025, peaking in 2023 with 38 births. It ranked #896 for boys in 2025 on 35 births. Across those years it has been rising.

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Births per 100,000 of that sex, so eras compare fairly. The shaded band is the 3-birth reporting floor — under it the registrar publishes nothing, so a line that stops has left the record, not fallen to zero. Achim in England and Wales, 2019–2025

Seven years is a window, not a history. Unlike the American and New Zealand series this one cannot show you a name's arrival or its long decline — ONS publishes the full list only from 2019. England and Wales only: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not counted here.

SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Decade by decade in the US

US rank and births at each decade markSSA · JUL 2026
YearRankBirths
2020below floor<5

<5 = the SSA published no figure for that year. It is a suppressed value, not a zero.

Questions about Achim

How popular is the name Achim?

Achim ranked #896 for boys in England and Wales in 2025, on 35 births registered with the Office for National Statistics.

When was Achim most popular?

Achim peaked in 2023, when 38 babies in England and Wales were given the name.

Is Achim rising or falling?

Measured as a share of all boys' births, Achim has been rising between 2019 and 2025 (+224%).

Same sex, peaking within a few years of 2024, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.

SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026

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