MEANING & HISTORY
What does Josie mean?
Josie is an English familiar form associated especially with Josephine and also with Joseph-family names. Through that family it reaches Hebrew Yosef, God will add.
The ie ending makes an affectionate personal-name form rather than a separate ancient word. Josie can be the full official name. Its history does not identify which longer name, if any, an individual family had in mind.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈd͡ʒowsi/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈd͡ʒoʊ̯.sɪ]Standard-Tagalog
- /ˈdjowsi/no palatal assimilation
- [ˈd̪joʊ̯.sɪ]no palatal assimilation
Jo · sie2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Josie.
a female given name from English
EnglishEtymology & source
A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Josie
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Josie Fitial
former First Lady of the Northern Mariana Islands
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Josie Gabuco
Phillipinian boxer
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Josie Gabuco, Josie Fitial
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Josie in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Josie
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Jesie·Documented form in the Jesse name family
- Jose♂Related to Joseph: adding or increasing
- José♂God will add
- Josue·Josué spelling in the Joshua family; Yahweh is salvation
- Jovie·Modern Jovie, associated with English jovial
- Rosie♀Affectionate form of Rose and related names
- Elsie♀Scottish familiar form of Elspeth or Elizabeth
- Jessie♂♀Familiar form of Jean or Jessica; also a form of Jesse
What rhymes with Josie?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
Explore Josie further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q15821851 — Josie (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Josie Gabuco (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q15821851 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Josie Fitial (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q15821851 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Josie (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Josie (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Josie (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Wiktionary: Joseph (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Consulted source-name history underlying the compound, root or short form.
- Wiktionary: Joseph (English) (opens in a new tab)
Consulted source-name history underlying the compound, root or short form.