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"The name of Yoakum is believed to be an Americanization of the German baptismal or personal name of Joachim.-----
Early seated in Germany, Silesia, Zealand, Sweden, Alsace and other parts of continental Europe, the Joachim family, from which the Yocums of America are believed to be descended, belonged, for the most part at least, to the landed classes. The German family of Joachim of Joachimsburg, an ancient and honorable line, were represented in the year 1747 by Johann Ignace Joachim, an officer in the German army; while the Jocham of Jochamsburg family of Alsalce were represented in 1754 by Johann Ignace Jocham, who was one of the Knights of the Holy Roman Empire. However the records of these lines are only fragmentary.
It is probable that the first of the name in America were of comparatively humble origins and that they were of that large group of German immigrants who adopted their surnames after or when coming to this country. ------they had much in common only the fact that their progenitors bore the Christian name of Joachim. However, this is purely conjecture, since the ancestry of the immigrants of that name has not been established."
"The coat of arms borned by the ancient German family of Joachim--is described as follows: (Rienstap, Armorial General, 1884):
Arms: "quarterly: 1 and 4 gules a lion or the lion of the first quarter contourne; 2 and 3, azure a coronet, or, somme three ostrich plumes argent.
Crest: "The furnishings of the second quarter."
Lambrequins: "Dexter, or gules, the sinister argent and azure."

Information on this is from the book, "Jachim, Joachim, Jochems, Yoakum, Yocom, Yocum, Yokum And Allied Families" by H.C. Smith.
Copyright 1963, Ca., U.S.A.

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