Joakim
Joakim or Joacim is a male name primarily used in Scandinavian, Finnish, and, before the 1917 Communist coup in Russia, Russian cultures. It is derived from a transliteration of the Hebrew יהוֹיָקִים, and literally means "lifted by Jehovah". In the Old Testament Jehoiakim was a king of Judah. In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions, Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne appears first in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Joachim and Anne are not mentioned in the Bible.
The following people are known by the given name Joakim or Joacim:
- Joakim Alexandersson, Swedish football player
- Joakim Andersson, Swedish diver
- Joakim Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joakim Assenmacher, German long jumper
- Joakim Austnes, Norwegian football player
- Joakim Berg, Swedish musician
- Joakim Bonnier, Swedish motor racer
- Joakim Bäckström, Swedish golfer
- Joakim Brodén, lead singer of the metal band Sabaton
- Joacim Cans, Swedish musician
- Joakim Cronman, Swedish soldier
- Joacim Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joakim Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joacim Esbjörs, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joakim Garff, Danish theologian
- Joakim Gruev, Bulgarian writer
- Joakim Haeggman, Swedish golfer
- Joakim Hagabakken, Norwegian football player
- Joakim Halvarsson, Swedish ski mountaineer
- Joakim Hedqvist, Swedish bandy player
- Joakim Hillding, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joakim Holmquist, Swedish swimmer
- Joakim Ingelsson, Swedish orienteer
- Joakim Jonsson, Swedish drummer
- Joakim Karchovski, Macedonian writer
- Joakim Karlsson, Swedish kickboxer
- Joakim Karlsson , Swedish footballer
- Joakim Lindengren, Swedish cartoonist
- Joakim Lindström, Swedish ice hockey player
- Joakim Lystad, Norwegian civil servant
- Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor
- Joakim Nilsson, Swedish football player
- Joakim Nilsson, Swedish football player
- Joakim Nilsson, Swedish javelin thrower
- Joakim Noah, American–French–Swedish basketball player
- Joakim Nyström, Swedish tennis player
- Joacim Persson, Swedish record producer and songwriter, see Twin
- Joakim Persson, Swedish football player
- Joakim Petersson Swedish rockstar
- Joakim Pirinen, Swedish cartoonist
- Joakim Puhk, Estonian businessman
- Joakim Frederik Schouw, Danish lawyer
- Joakim Sjöhage, Swedish football player
- Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
- Joakim Stulić, Croatian lexicographer
- Joakim Sundström, Swedish sound designer and musician
- Joakim Thåström, Swedish musician
- Joacim Tuuri, Finnish footballer
- Joakim Vujić, Serbian dramatist
Fictional character
- Joakim von Anka, the Swedish name for Scrooge McDuck.
