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Throughout the world, Josephin (جوزفين , Josephin ) is quite a rare dominantly girly, but uncommonly male forename. The first name Josephin is habitual in Syria, where it is quite a rare female name, Lebanon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare masculine name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in India, Nigeria, and Indonesia. Much less frequently, Josephin is the last name as well as the forename.
Josephin is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Jo March , the fictional character from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; Josephine Mutzenbacher , character in Josephine Mutzenbacher; Josephine Buddenbrook , the character from Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks; Josephine Anwhistle , character in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Josephine "Josie" Powell Breen , the character in Joyce's Ulysses, among other works.