Josina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder ländische Kurzform von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒuzinɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 84th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 31K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.8K
- MZMozambique≈1 in 10K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
9,485 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder ländische Kurzform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 9,485 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.4K | Josina | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,822 | 1 in 31K | 9.6K | Josina | 58 |
| MZ Mozambique | #84 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Josina | 13 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Josina | 3 |
| AO Angola | #753 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Josina | 11 |
9,485 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Josina 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 Dutch, a diminutive of the female given names Josepha or Josephine
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)
- Josina Copes-Schade van Westrumb. 1626NLDutch noble, wife of Otto Copes (1626-1704)
- Josina Carolina van Lyndenb. 1717NLDutch philosopher
- Josina van Aerssenb. 1733NLDutch composer
- Josina Roorda van Eysingab. 1807NLDutch writer
- Josina Machelb. 1945MZMozambican politician and activist
- Marja Lubeckb. 1965NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand politician
- Karel Martensb. 1967NLnot in their usual nameDutch transport and urban planner
- Josina Z. Machelb. 1976MZMozambican activist
- Josina Vermeulenb. 1983NLDutch rower
- Sara Josina StichterNLDutch printer (fl. 1717-1725)
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 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 9.6K | #2,235 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 9.5K | #951 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 9.4K | #249 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.8K | #2,205 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 6.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 6.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 6.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 5.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 3.8K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.6K | #910 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 2.1K | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Josina?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒuzinɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Josina a male or female name?
- Josina 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 does the name Josina mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., friesische und nieder ländische Kurzform von
- In which country does Josina have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named Josina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josina.
- Where is Josina most common?
- Josina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Josina?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9,485 people named Josina, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Josina compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Josina is the 84th most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josinaThe 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, “Josina” — the 84th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.