Josèphine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Josèphine is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From French Joséphine, diminutive of Josèphe, feminine form of Joseph. Popularized in English by Josephine Bonaparte, the empress of Napoleonic France.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 380(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Josèphine itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #643 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 515 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 380 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Josephine in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From French Joséphine, diminutive of Josèphe, feminine form of Joseph. Popularized in English by Josephine Bonaparte, the empress of Napoleonic France.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Josèphine counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #34 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | — | Josephine | 154 |
| NG Nigeria | #227 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Josephine | 107 |
| US United States | #325 | 123,986 | 1 in 2.7K | 124K | Josephine | 515 |
| GB United Kingdom | #272 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 12 | Josephine | 263 |
| ES Spain | — | 36,842as Josefina | 1 in 1.4K | 40K | Josephine | 78 |
| SE Sweden | #429 | 19,274as Josefine | 1 in 529 | 19K | Josephine | 88 |
| DK Denmark | #318 | 9,410as Josefine | 1 in 624 | 9.4K | Josephine | 128 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Josèphine mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Joséphine, diminutive of Josèphe, feminine form of Joseph. Popularized in English by Josephine Bonaparte, the empress of Napoleonic France. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 2 other sources.
- Is Josèphine a male or female name?
- Josèphine is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Josèphine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 thousand people named Josèphine in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josephine.
- How common is the name Josèphine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123,986 people named Josèphine in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Josèphine compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Josèphine is the 34th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jos%C3%A8phineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josèphine” — the 34th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.