Given name · also Danish
Jósefína
Jósefína is a feminine given name from Danish, ultimately from French. It is used in Icelandic.
Original FrenchJoséphine
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jósefína comes from Danish, and ultimately from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Jósefína developed from Joséphine.
Jósefína’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Jósefína developed from the French form Joséphine. In Icelandic usage, Jósefína has a conventional equivalent in the English form Josephine. In Icelandic usage, Jósefína was borrowed from the Danish form Josephine.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jósefína has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its French roots to each of them.
Frenchwhere Jósefína comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Joséphineroot · French
- Josephinesource · Danish, English
- Josephinaequivalent
- JosefinaPortuguese
- Josefineequivalent
- Josefiinaequivalent
- Józefinaequivalent
- Jozefínaequivalent
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