Joachim is a masculine given name, derived from the Hebrew Yehoyaqim (יְהוֹיָקִים), meaning "raised by Yahweh".
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People
Jehoiakim (c. 635–597 BC), king of Judah, from whom all later versions of the name are directly or indirectly derived
Jehoiachin, king of Judah and son of Jehoiakim
Joachim, a Saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. He was the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus
Joachim (Levitsky) (1853–c.1921), Russian Orthodox bishop and religious writer
Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (born 1991)
Patriarch Joachim I of Constantinople, reigned 1498–1502,1504
Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople, reigned 1860–1863, 1873–1878
Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (1834–1912)
Prince Joachim of Denmark (born 1969)
Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135–1202), Italian monk, founder of the heretical "Three Ages" theory
Joachim of Ithaca (1786–1868), born in Ithaca, Greece, a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox tradition
Patriarch Joachim of Moscow (1620–1690), the eleventh Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Joachim of Korsun (died 1030), first bishop of Novgorod the Great
Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890–1920), German royal
Joachim, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau (1929–1998), German count
Joachim Beck-Friis (1861–1939), Swedish diplomat
Joachim-Ernst Berendt (1922–2000), German jazz journalist
Joachim Björklund (born 1971), Swedish football player
Joachim-Raphaël Boronali, a pseudoym used by the French novelist Roland Dorgelès (1885–1973)
Joachim Dahissiho, Beninese politician
Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560), French poet
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1884–1945), German Nazi SS officer
Joachim Fest (1926–2006), German historian and writer on Nazi Germany
Joachim Fuchsberger (1927–2014), German actor and television host
Joachim Garraud, (born 1968), French DJ
Joachim Gauck (born 1940), President of Germany 2012–2017
Joachim Grubich (1935–2025), Polish organist
Joachim Gruppelaar (1911–1971), Dutch Olympic equestrian
Joachim Gutkeled (c.1240–1277), Hungarian baron
Joachim Hamann (1913–1945), Baltic-German Holocaust perpetrator
Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505–1571)
Joachim Johansson (born 1982), Swedish tennis player
Joachim Kroll (1933–1991), German serial killer, rapist, and cannibal
Joachim Löw (born 1960), German football coach and former manager of the Germany national team
Otto Joachim Moltke (1770–1853), Danish politician and Minister of State
Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), German Nazi doctor executed for war crimes
Joachim Murat, multiple people
Joachim Nagel (born 1966), German economist and current president of the Bundesbank
Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484–1535), German member of the Hohenzollern
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976), German war criminal and SS leader
Joachim Perinet (1763–1816), Austrian dramatist
Joseph Joachim Raff (1822–1882), German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist
Joachim Riis (born 1989), Danish politician
Joachim Ringelnatz, pen name of German author and painter Hans Bötticher (1883–1934)
Joachim Rumohr (1910-1945), German Nazi SS commander
Joachim Holmboe Rønneberg (1851–1929), Norwegian politician
Joachim Rønneberg (1919–2018), member of the Operation Gunnerside team of the sabotage of the heavy water plant at Vemork
Joachim Sauer (born 1949), German scientist
Joachim Soltvedt (born 1995), Norwegian footballer
Joachim Stamp (born 1970), German politician
Hans-Joachim Stuck (born 1951), German motor racing driver
Joachim Stutschewsky (1891–1982), Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal
Joachim Wendler (1939–1975), German aquanaut
Joachim Witt (born 1949), German musician and actor
Joachim Ziegler (1905–1945), German Nazi SS commander
Fictional characters
Joachim Armster, the vampiric boss of the Dark Palace of Waterfalls in the Castlevania: Lament of Innocence video game
Elder Joachim, a high-ranking member of the Panarii religion and mentor to the character Virgil in the 2001 video game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Joachim (Star Trek), a villain from the Star Trek episode "Space Seed" and the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Joachim, the Norwegian protagonist of Jostein Gaarder's novel The Christmas Mystery
Joachim Kleronomas, a cyborg legend who figured heavily in George R. R. Martin's novella The Glass Flower which was published in 1986.
Joachim de Wett, a Nilfgaardian commander in The Witcher series
Joachim Ziemssen, cousin of the protagonist Hans Castorp in Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain


