Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 Jochen
/YOH · khen/
Meaning
“Raised by God”
German short form of Joachim, from Hebrew Yoyaqim meaning 'raised by God'; a distinctly German masculine name with a warm, casual register.
Nicknames
jo
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peaked in Germany in the 1950s-60s - currently reads as a grandfather name, revival distant.
The cultural moment.
Common in Germany from the 1940s-1970s; rare for newborns today.