Meaning & origin
How it developed
In French usage, Josine is a diminutive of Joséphine.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1960. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 128 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.
Josine’s family of names
In French usage, Josine is a diminutive of Joséphine.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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.
People named Josine
- Josine KoningDutch field hockey playerborn 1995
- Josine van DalsumDutch actress and screenwriter (1948-2009)
- Josine BlokDutch university teacher (born 1953)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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