Joachim (given name)

Joachim is a common male first name in Germany. Jochen and Achim are often used as an alternative or as a short form.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

Joachim comes from the Hebrew name Jehoiakim ( " YHWH focused on " or " of YHWH raised up " ) or Jehoiachin ( " raised by YHWH ").

Jehoiakim (originally Eliakim 2.Kö 23.35 to 24.7; 2 Chronicles 36.5-8 ) was in the Old Testament a king of Judah. His son Jehoiachin was called.

The apocryphal Gospel of James, called the father of the Virgin Mary, so the grandfather of Jesus Christ, Joachim. He came from the house of David. In the tradition of the Orthodox and the Catholic Church he is venerated as a saint.

Name Days

Dissemination

Spread the name in the Middle Ages in the Levant, where he comes from the Crusades to Europe.

The name Joachim became popular in German-speaking countries after the Reformation. Frequently he finds himself in a north German sources of the 16th and 17th century in the rarely used short form Chim.

Beginning of the 20th century was a moderately popular boys name Joachim. His popularity rose middle of the century back gradually, the name managed in the fifties it in a year among the ten most common boys' names. His popularity fell sharply in the seventies, since the early nineties called barely boy Joachim.

Variants

  • Danish Achim, Akim, Joacim, Joakim, Jochum, Jock, Jockum, Jokum, Kim, Kimm, Kimmy, Kimo
  • German Achim, Jochen, Jochim, Kim, Jachi, Jojo, Jo, Joe, Joey, Jochi, Joschi, Joschy, Jockel
  • Finnish Aki Akim, Akima, Jaakkima, Joakim, Kim, Kimi, Kimmo
  • Greek Ιωακείμ Joakim
  • Italian Gioacchino
  • Japanese:ヨアヒム
  • Catalan Joaquim, Ximo
  • Croatian Joakim
  • Dutch Jochem, Jochum, Joggem, Joggum
  • Norwegian Akim, Akkim, Joacim, Joakim, Jochum, Jocum, Jokum, Kim
  • Portuguese Joaquim
  • Romansh: Giuachin
  • Russian Иоаким, Аким
  • Swedish Joacim, Joakim, Jocke, Jockum, Kim
  • Serbian Cyrillic Аћим ACIM
  • Spanish Joaquín
  • Czech Jáchym
  • Basque Jokin

From the first name Joachim also emerged surnames:

  • Joachim
  • Joachim Meyer, Joachim Meier

Inter alia,

Well-known bearers of the name

Patriarch

  • Joachim I. ( Antioch ) Antioch ( Rum Orthodox) ( 1199 to 1219 )
  • Joachim II ( Antioch ) ( 1411-1426 )
  • Joachim III. ( Antioch ) ( 1476-1483 )
  • Joachim IV ( Antioch ) ( 1543-1576 )
  • Joachim V. ( Antioch ) ( 1581-1592 )
  • Joachim VI. ( Antioch ) ( 1593-1604 )
  • Joachim I (Jerusalem ) (ca. 1437 -ca. 1464 ) of Jerusalem
  • Joachim I. (Alexandria ) ( 1486-1567 ) of Alexandria

Ruler

  • Joachim (Anhalt ) ( 1509-1561 ), Prince of Anhalt -Dessau
  • Joachim ( Münsterberg Oels) ( 1503-1562 ), Duke of Münsterberg, Duke of Oels and Count of Glatz and bishop of Brandenburg
  • Joachim ( Ortenbourg ) ( 1530-1600 ), Count of places castle and manor to Mattighofen and Neudeck
  • Joachim the Younger ( Pomerania ), Duke of Pomerania -Stettin ( 1435-1451 )
  • Joachim I (Brandenburg), Elector ( 1499-1535 )
  • Joachim II (Brandenburg), Elector ( 1535-1571 )
  • Joachim Ernst ( Anhalt), Prince ( 1562-1586 )
  • Joachim Ernst von Anhalt, Herzog ( 1918)
  • Joachim Ernst von Anhalt- Dessau (1592-1615), Prince of Anhalt- Dessau
  • Joachim Friedrich ( Brandenburg), Elector ( 1598-1608 )
  • Joachim Ernst ( Brandenburg -Ansbach ), Marquis ( 1603-1625 )
  • Joachim Friedrich ( Brieg ) ( 1550-1602 ), Duke of Liegnitz - Brieg
  • Joachim of Brandenburg (1583-1600), Margrave of Brandenburg
  • Joachim Friedrich ( Brandenburg ) ( 1546-1608 ), Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia, Administrator of Magdeburg
  • Joachim Sigismund of Brandenburg (1603-1625), Margrave of Brandenburg
  • Joachim of Denmark, Count of Monpezat
  • Joachim von Neuhaus (1526-1565), Bohemian nobleman, High Chancellor of Bohemia and Count of Karlstejn Castle
  • Joachim Ulrich von Neuhaus (1579-1604), Bohemian nobleman and Prague Castle Count
  • Joachim Friedrich ( Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön ) ( 1668-1722 ), Duke of Schleswig -Holstein - Plön
  • Joachim Ernst ( Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön ) ( 1595-1671 ), Duke of the Duchy of Schleswig -Holstein - Plön
  • Joachim von Zollern (1554-1587), Count of Zollern

Dignitary

  • Joachim Karl of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1573-1615), provost of the cathedral at Strasbourg and Mayor
  • Joachim from the mountain (1526-1602), German diplomat and statesman
  • Joachim of Fiore, abbot and founder of the Order in Calabria, historical theologian

More

  • Joachim Fuchs Berger, German actor
  • Joachim Gauck, German Federal President
  • Joachim Löw, coach of the German national football team
  • Joachim Peiper, banner leader of the Waffen- SS
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Joachim Sauer, husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
  • Joachim Witt, German musician and actor

More Nachbenennungen

  • Joachim storm, storm in Central Europe, 2011
  • Jáchymov, Jáchymov today, and there embossed Joachimstalerstrasse
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