Josephine

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Also spelled: Josรฉphine (15)

Meaning

Josephine is a female name. It is the English version of the French name Josรฉphine, itself a female variant of the name Joseph , which is ultimately derived from the Hebrew name Yosef, meaning "he shall add/grow".

From Wikipedia

Josephine first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 63 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1959 with 180 babies (rank #102 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Josephine

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Josephine yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

4,883
Total babies (all years)
63
Years in the data
180
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952145#107
1953141#107
1954166#91
1955158#105
1956130#134
1957176#99
1958167#107
1959180#102
1960144#124
1961135#135
1962141#133
1963134#142
1964107#165
1965101#169
196677#226
196781#205
196869#247
196966#266
197053#319
197130#421
197226#446
197321#478
197424#433
197530#370
197623#427
197718#496
197816#519
197916#526
198023#457
198125#434
198219#492
198321#472
198416#562
198531#382
198621#508
198738#347
198828#431
198931#406
199033#411
199137#381
199262#258
199357#273
199448#310
199554#281
199667#222
199762#241
199871#221
199966#228
200080#196
200177#206
200284#190
200383#197
200489#172
200596#152
2006110#133
2007108#130
2008119#126
200995#149
2010103#145
2011104#137
2012110#125
2013110#122
2014130#110