Girl · Hebrew, through French
Josette
Say it: zhoh-ZET
Meaning
Feminine diminutive of Joseph, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A favourite of 1930s–40s France, now very rare.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1960s
In the United States
- 6,194 babies given this name since 1916
- At its height in 1968, about 1 in 3,300 girls
- 73 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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