Yakym
Its very first newborns showed up only last year, two boys, on a base of barely 58 men in Poland: a name most people here have never met. It comes to Polish from Ukrainian, rooted in the Hebrew for "raised by Yahweh".
Yakym Pronunciation
Yakym is pronounced ih-AH-kihm (/ɨˈakɨm/).
What Yakym means
Where Yakym comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yakym comes from Hebrew, from the name Yehoyaqim, and its sense is plain: raised by Yahweh. An older bearer stands in the Hebrew Bible, King Jehoiakim of Judah. The same root reached Western Europe as Joachim. In Ukrainian it settled into a shorter, harder shape, Yakym, and there it held.
The name sits inside the church calendar. In Christian tradition Joachim is the father of Mary and the husband of Anne. Eastern Slavic families kept that name close and said it their own way. A boy called Yakym wore a biblical grandfather's name to school.
You can meet it now on an official form at the urząd, spelled out for a clerk who asks twice. It is short. The meaning under it has not changed since the Hebrew: raised by Yahweh.
How many people are named Yakym
1 in 368038 men in Poland is named Yakym. 58 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4894 among male names.
Yakym's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1886 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.