Joséphine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French feminine of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒozefin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Joséphine is a 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.
- 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 Joséphine itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Sources
- 515 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 380 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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)
French feminine of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joséphine 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Joséphine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a diminutive of the female given name Josèphe, from Hebrew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- La Goulueb. 1866FRnot in their usual namecan-can dancer from France
- Alice Milliatb. 1884FRnot in their usual namepioneer of women's sport (1884–1957)
- Joséphine Bakerb. 1906USAmerican-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
- Claudia Cardinaleb. 1938FRnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1938–2025)
- Joséphine de La Baumeb. 1984FRFrench actor, singer and model
- Joséphine Jobertb. 1985FRFrench actress and singer
- Princess Alexandra of Luxembourgb. 1991LUnot in their usual nameLuxembourg princess
- Joséphine Lebas-Jolyb. 1992FRFrench actress
- Joséphine Japyb. 1994FRFrench actress
- Angèleb. 1995BEnot in their usual nameBelgian singer-songwriter and actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 237 | #4,644 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 83 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 81 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 79 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 73 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 69 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 68 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 68 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Joséphine?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒozefin/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Joséphine mean, and where does it come from?
- French feminine of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Joséphine?
- In the etymology graph, Josefina, Jo and Jody are forms of the same name in other languages; Josiane, Josette and Fifi are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Josée and Josèphe.
- Is Joséphine a male or female name?
- Joséphine 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 Joséphine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 thousand people named Joséphine in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josephine.
- How common is the name Joséphine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123,986 people named Joséphine in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Joséphine compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Joséphine is the 34th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jos%C3%A9phineThe 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, “Joséphine” — the 34th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.