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Josephson Josephson is a surname.
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Popularity score No recent data Boys and girls Mostly boys
80% boysBased on U.S. population records 20% girls
People named Josephson in the U.S. Very rare Fewer than about 30 people. Estimated from birth records for children and population records for adults.
Interest on PerfectNameFinder Not yet scored Not enough visits yet to score. Every read and save counts toward it. Meaning & origin How it developed In English usage, Josephson as a surname has a “son of” formation linked to Joseph.
Josephson’s family of names In English usage, Josephson as a surname has a “son of” formation linked to Joseph. In English usage, Josephson as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Юзефсон.
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Josephson Josephsson Joseph Hovsepyan Юзефсон Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1 Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3 Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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About this profile. Meanings and origins are drawn from historical dictionaries and reference works, including Wiktionary; where interpretations differ, we say so. Popularity comes from U.S. Social Security birth records, 1880–2025. Famous namesakes come from Wikidata. Related names are linked through documented relationships; likely links are labeled as such.