Given name
Josiane
Josiane is a feminine given name from French. It is used in English and French.
Original FrenchJosianne
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josiane through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 149
- 0 boys · 149 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,980 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,980 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 1,207 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.
Josiane’s family of names
In French usage, Josiane has a related form in JOSIANNE. Josiane is a form of Josée.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Josiane
- Josiane BalaskoFrench actress, film director, writer and screenwriter (born 1950)
- Josiane TitoBrazilian sprinter and middle distance runnerborn 1979
- Josiane KartheiserLuxembourg writerborn 1950
- Josiane SerreFrench chemist (1922-2004)
- Josiane BostFrench racing cyclistborn 1956
- Josiane UbaudFrench linguist (1947-)
- Miss JojoRwandan musicianborn 1983
- Josiane AubertSwiss politicianborn 1949
- Josiane ShenLuxembourgish presenterborn 2000
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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