Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Josephine is a female name. It is the English version of the French name Joséphine, itself a female variant of the name Joseph , which is ultimately derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he shall add/grow".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Josephine yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Josephine's rank actually peaked before its count did — #21 in 1916, two years ahead of the raw-count record, 8,682 births in 1918. More than a century later, the name is climbing again: 64% growth over the last decade, reaching 3,746 births in 2024.
This name's own total, 328,296 births, has accumulated since the dataset's 1880 start.
Josephine Baker's jazz-age fame anchors it in the 1920s, while Belgian singer Angèle, born Angèle Van Laeken, has it tucked into her own birth name as well, in contemporary pop music.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 544 | #50 |
| 1881 | 563 | #48 |
| 1882 | 638 | #49 |
| 1883 | 697 | #46 |
| 1884 | 800 | #45 |
| 1885 | 783 | #48 |
| 1886 | 844 | #47 |
| 1887 | 815 | #50 |
| 1888 | 1,001 | #49 |
| 1889 | 1,047 | #49 |
| 1890 | 1,118 | #49 |
| 1891 | 1,031 | #49 |
| 1892 | 1,210 | #49 |
| 1893 | 1,178 | #50 |
| 1894 | 1,256 | #48 |
| 1895 | 1,334 | #47 |
| 1896 | 1,256 | #50 |
| 1897 | 1,267 | #47 |
| 1898 | 1,425 | #46 |
| 1899 | 1,388 | #44 |
| 1900 | 1,743 | #47 |
| 1901 | 1,434 | #43 |
| 1902 | 1,565 | #42 |
| 1903 | 1,587 | #40 |
| 1904 | 1,701 | #40 |
| 1905 | 1,894 | #37 |
| 1906 | 1,900 | #38 |
| 1907 | 2,156 | #33 |
| 1908 | 2,389 | #28 |
| 1909 | 2,416 | #31 |
| 1910 | 2,801 | #30 |
| 1911 | 3,011 | #29 |
| 1912 | 3,980 | #28 |
| 1913 | 4,822 | #24 |
| 1914 | 5,896 | #23 |
| 1915 | 7,606 | #22 |
| 1916 | 8,127 | #21 |
| 1917 | 8,326 | #21 |
| 1918 | 8,682 | #24 |
| 1919 | 8,104 | #26 |
| 1920 | 8,093 | #28 |
| 1921 | 8,135 | #28 |
| 1922 | 7,864 | #27 |
| 1923 | 7,560 | #30 |
| 1924 | 7,274 | #34 |
| 1925 | 6,810 | #36 |
| 1926 | 6,410 | #37 |
| 1927 | 6,108 | #39 |
| 1928 | 5,671 | #42 |
| 1929 | 5,298 | #45 |
| 1930 | 4,988 | #49 |
| 1931 | 4,497 | #51 |
| 1932 | 4,094 | #57 |
| 1933 | 3,570 | #62 |
| 1934 | 3,742 | #60 |
| 1935 | 3,262 | #75 |
| 1936 | 3,141 | #77 |
| 1937 | 2,942 | #82 |
| 1938 | 2,978 | #83 |
| 1939 | 2,837 | #84 |
| 1940 | 2,744 | #89 |
| 1941 | 2,726 | #92 |
| 1942 | 2,748 | #100 |
| 1943 | 2,664 | #108 |
| 1944 | 2,324 | #115 |
| 1945 | 2,146 | #120 |
| 1946 | 2,228 | #127 |
| 1947 | 2,351 | #133 |
| 1948 | 2,230 | #134 |
| 1949 | 2,163 | #143 |
| 1950 | 2,093 | #146 |
| 1951 | 1,966 | #157 |
| 1952 | 1,862 | #169 |
| 1953 | 1,799 | #172 |
| 1954 | 1,719 | #186 |
| 1955 | 1,595 | #199 |
| 1956 | 1,485 | #210 |
| 1957 | 1,442 | #221 |
| 1958 | 1,274 | #239 |
| 1959 | 1,177 | #257 |
| 1960 | 1,158 | #263 |
| 1961 | 1,203 | #258 |
| 1962 | 1,104 | #269 |
| 1963 | 1,053 | #281 |
| 1964 | 962 | #297 |
| 1965 | 863 | #309 |
| 1966 | 838 | #306 |
| 1967 | 744 | #319 |
| 1968 | 693 | #332 |
| 1969 | 699 | #338 |
| 1970 | 677 | #363 |
| 1971 | 603 | #382 |
| 1972 | 580 | #373 |
| 1973 | 535 | #383 |
| 1974 | 536 | #389 |
| 1975 | 456 | #434 |
| 1976 | 431 | #449 |
| 1977 | 442 | #452 |
| 1978 | 457 | #438 |
| 1979 | 437 | #463 |
| 1980 | 502 | #430 |
| 1981 | 476 | #452 |
| 1982 | 491 | #440 |
| 1983 | 480 | #438 |
| 1984 | 437 | #472 |
| 1985 | 423 | #485 |
| 1986 | 456 | #470 |
| 1987 | 436 | #498 |
| 1988 | 503 | #450 |
| 1989 | 527 | #459 |
| 1990 | 579 | #435 |
| 1991 | 607 | #421 |
| 1992 | 591 | #427 |
| 1993 | 596 | #419 |
| 1994 | 648 | #390 |
| 1995 | 700 | #376 |
| 1996 | 725 | #371 |
| 1997 | 784 | #353 |
| 1998 | 840 | #347 |
| 1999 | 989 | #312 |
| 2000 | 1,116 | #288 |
| 2001 | 1,153 | #275 |
| 2002 | 1,198 | #264 |
| 2003 | 1,257 | #258 |
| 2004 | 1,337 | #242 |
| 2005 | 1,490 | #229 |
| 2006 | 1,548 | #221 |
| 2007 | 1,562 | #223 |
| 2008 | 1,634 | #208 |
| 2009 | 1,627 | #201 |
| 2010 | 1,677 | #185 |
| 2011 | 1,730 | #182 |
| 2012 | 1,957 | #160 |
| 2013 | 2,012 | #160 |
| 2014 | 2,286 | #147 |
| 2015 | 2,505 | #131 |
| 2016 | 2,797 | #114 |
| 2017 | 2,822 | #107 |
| 2018 | 3,048 | #91 |
| 2019 | 3,122 | #89 |
| 2020 | 3,057 | #87 |
| 2021 | 3,389 | #72 |
| 2022 | 3,263 | #70 |
| 2023 | 3,366 | #64 |
| 2024 | 3,746 | #56 |
