| Josephine | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Related names | Joseph |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Josephine |
Look up Josephine in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Josephine is a female given name. It is the English version of the French name Joséphine. This is the feminine form of the name Joseph, which is taken from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning The Lord increases.
Contents |
Variations
It was originally a diminutive form of the French name Joséphe, and eventually became the standard form in the 19th Century, replacing Joséphe, which eventually became a very rare name. Josephine is now the 260th most popular name in the USA. Diminutive forms of this name include Fifi, Jo, Josie, Joetta and Jojo.
Female
- Italian: Giuseppa, Giuseppina
- Portuguese: Josefa, Josefina
- Finnish: Josefiina
- Estonian: Josefine
- Spanish: Josefina
- German: Josepha
- French: Joséphine
- Polish: Józefa, Józefina
- Slovene: Jožefa
- Hungarian: Jozefa
- Croatian: Josipa
Male
- Italian: Giuseppe
- Maori: Hohepa
- Armenian: Hovsep
- Romanian: Iosif
- Latvian: Jazeps
- Finnish: Jooseppi
- Estonian: Joosep
- Spanish: José
- Basque: Joseba, Josepe
- German: Josef
- Catalan: Josep
- French: Joseph
- Serbian: Josif
- Croatian: Josip
- Hungarian: Jóska, József
- Polish: Józef
- Slovene: Jožef, Jože
- Dutch: Jozef
- Esperato: Jozefo
- Lithuanian: Juozapas
- Russian: Osip
- Scottish: Seòsaidh
- Irish: Seosamh
- Galican: Xosé
- Jewish: Yosef
- Bulgarian: Yosif, Йосиф
- Ukrainian: Yosyp
- Arabic: Yusef
- Azeri: Yusif, Yusuf, Usub
- Turkish: Yusuf
People with the given name Josephine
- Josephine Baker, dancer, actress, and singer
- Josephine Bakhita, ex-slave from Sudan, Catholic nun and saint
- Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, Belgian princess
- Josephine Cox (born 1938), author
- Josephine Foster, American folk singer
- Josephine Clara Goldmark, American reformer
- Josephine Sophia White Griffing, American social reformer
- Josephine Hopper, wife and model of painter Edward Hopper
- Josephine Humphreys, American novelist
- Josephine Shaw Lowell, American social reformer
- Josephine Mitchell (born 1965), Australian actress
- Josephine Louise Le Monnier Newcomb, American philanthropist
- Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden
- Josephine Preston Peabody, American writer
- Josephine Ruffin, early civil rights activist and suffragist
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American civil rights leader
- Josephine Tey, mystery writer
- Josephine Patterson Albright, American journalist
- Josephine Holt Perfect Bay, American financier
- Josephine Bell, English author
- Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, American educator
- Josephine Silone Yates early civil rights activist
See also
- Josephine
- Joséphine
- Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, widely known as Josephine
- Josephine, Texas
- Josephine Williams
- Hurricane Josephine
- Josephine “Jo” March, protagonist of the novel Little Women
