Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Josaphine isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josaphine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 201
- 0 boys · 201 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,472 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,472 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 283 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.
Josaphine’s family of names
In English usage, Josaphine has a conventional equivalent in the German form JOSEFINE.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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