Given name
Giuseppina
“the Lord will add”
Giuseppina is a variant of Guiseppina. In Italian use, Guiseppina carries the interpretation “the Lord will add.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Giuseppina is a variant of Guiseppina. In Italian use, Guiseppina carries the interpretation “the Lord will add.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Giuseppina is used as a form of Josephine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Giuseppina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 798
- 0 boys · 798 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 37 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,271 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,271 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 37 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,593 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Giuseppina’s family of names
In Italian usage, Giuseppina has a diminutive in PINA. Giuseppina shares a linguistic root with Josephine. In Italian usage, Giuseppina has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form JOSEFINA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Giuseppina has relatives in 7 languages.
8 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Giuseppina
- Giuseppina StrepponiItalian singer (1815-1897)
- Giuseppina LeoneItalian sprinterborn 1934
- Pippa BaccaItalian artist (1974–2008)
- Giuseppina ProjettoItalian supercentenarian1902–2018
- Giuseppina BozzacchiItalian ballet dancer (1853–1870)
- Giuseppina GrassiniItalian opera singer (1773-1850)
- Giuditta VanniniItalian Roman Catholic professed religious (1859–1911)
- José GreciItalian film, television and stage actress (1941-2017)
- Giuseppina SurianoItalian Beatified nun (1915–1950)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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