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[Surname] Re: Joachim
JOACHIM m English, French, German, Polish, Biblical

Means "established by YAHWEH" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament Joachim is a king of Judah. In the apocryphal Gospel of James, Saint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of the Virgin Mary.

[This from the main website, behindthename.com; the name just hasn't been added here yet. :)]
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