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Baby name
Josephine
Girl
Origin of the name
Josephine is the feminine of Joseph, from the Hebrew Yosef, “God will add.” Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoleon, made it famous.
Comeback name
331,467births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 24rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Josephine are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Josephine is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Josephine is most common in New York (2 times), Connecticut (1.8) and New Mexico (1.7), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
One letter apart
- Josephina 3,494
- Josiephine 1,061
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