Josette

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Josette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: French diminutive of Joseph/Josée, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 4.9K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 17K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈54,000 people, est.

Sources
275 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French diminutive of Joseph/Josée, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Josette 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.

Where Josette is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈54,000 est.≈1 in 26K—Josette7
FR France#291≈35,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K154KJosette275
US United States—6,6781 in 50K6.7KJosette241
PH Philippines—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 43K—Josette33
BE Belgium#436≈2,400 est.≈1 in 4.9K—Josette45
CM Cameroon#819≈1,900 est.≈1 in 15K—Josette7
NL Netherlands—7721 in 22K761Josette23
CR Costa Rica#3623001 in 17K300Josette27

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Josette is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Josétte

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Josétte

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Josette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Modern French pet form of Joséphine, sometimes also used in the Englishspeaking world in the 20th century.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In French, a diminutive of the female given name Joséphine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Forme féminine de Joseph; d'origine hébraïque, « Dieu ajoute ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Pet form of soséPHINE.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Spanish, French diminutive of Josèphe, i.e. Josefa/Josefina

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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)

1850190019502000Josette Andriot, b. 1886Josette Frank, b. 1893Josette Day, b. 1914Micheline Dax, b. 1924Josette Banzet, b. 1938Josette Sheeran, b. 1954Josette Simon, b. 1959Josette Vidal, b. 1993Josette Halpert, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 64 sources across 39 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Josette mean, and where does it come from?
French diminutive of Joseph/Josée, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Josette a male or female name?
Josette 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.
What are other forms of the name Josette?
In the etymology graph, Josefina, Jo and Josephine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Joséphine and Josèphe.
In which country does Josette have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Josette in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josette.
How common is the name Josette?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,678 people named Josette in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
How common is Josette compared with other names?
In France, Josette is the 291st most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.

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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, “Josette” — the 291st most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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