Comments for JOSEPHINE:

Josephine March "Jo", main character of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" is a notable bearer of this name.

-- savvy  6/10/2005

Josephine is a very sophisticated and undated name. The nicknames are very nice, and can fit any sort of person.

-- SadieMarch  6/16/2005

Josephine Potter (or Joey Potter) is one of the female main characters (played by Katie Holmes) on "Dawson's Creek".

-- Mary-Rach  8/6/2005

My favorite nickname for Josephine is Posie.

-- Fionafabulous  5/17/2006

Josephine is the full first name of Josie from Josie and the Pussycats.

-- Tudor  6/20/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Josephine here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  9/3/2006

A character in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events is named Josephine. She is afraid of pretty much everything, and her greatest joy in life (before she's eaten by leeches) is grammar.

-- rain-angel03  9/18/2006

I find the name Josephine classic and charming but still not very pretty. I also find the nickname Josie cute, but rather weak. Jo makes a better, more substantial nickname into adulthood.

-- Anonymous User  3/30/2007

An evil woman is called this in the book I am writing. Needless to say, I am not particually fond of it, as I think it sounds snobby.

-- Anonymous User  4/11/2007

I think this name is very pretty and underused. It is old-fashioned and I like it. I might even name my daughter that. I would call her "Jo" for short, though.

-- CharlieRob  5/6/2007

The popular exotic dancer Josephine Baker was a bearer of this name.

-- Anonymous User  8/6/2007

I think this is an ugly name and I can't believe it's still popular. EEK!

-- Honeyrose  8/8/2007

In my opinion, this is a great name which is a timeless classic and it can fit anyone! Plus it's got awesome nicknames!

-- spaz123  8/12/2007

The main character in the novel and movie Looking for Alibrandi bears this name. Hers is shortened to Josie.

-- Keladry  3/21/2008

Singer Maite Kelly and Florent Michel Raimond have a daughter Josephine Raimond, born 22nd January 2008.

-- Emilie007  7/4/2008

My middle name, although it's spelled "Josefin". It's spelled that way beacause my parents thought "it was best to keep it simple". Now, I've learnt to like the spelling. In Sweden, the spelling "Josefin" is much more usual than "Josephine", although some people spell it "Josefine".

-- Anonymous User  8/3/2008

In Sweden there have been some royals with the name.
Josephine of Leuchtenberg, 14 March 1807 - 7 June 1876) was the Queen consort of Oscar I of Sweden and Norway. She was known as Queen Josefina. Her paternal grandmother and namesake was Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie, the first wife of Emperor Napoléon I of France.

-- Anonymous User  9/30/2008

Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine; born 10 June 1982) is the youngest child and second daughter of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden.
Her fourth name, Josephine, is in honour of her ancestress Josephine of Leuchtenberg (later Queen of Sweden and Norway under the name Josefina) the daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife Empress Joséphine by her first husband.

-- Anonymous User  9/30/2008

In The Catcher in the Rye, Phoebe Caulfield's middle name is Josephine.

-- moonbaby9307  10/25/2008

I really don't like the English pronunciation of the 'J', but in French it's much softer, you say it with the 'zh' sound. That sounds 100 times more pretty to me. Also the old nickname for Josephine is Fifi.

-- Meggiemuffins  11/3/2008

Josephine is the name of a song by Chris Rea.

-- Anonymous User  12/11/2008

I like the nickname Ephiny. Otherwise Jo.

-- Anonymous User  4/1/2009

A famous bearer was American coloratura soprano Josephine Antoine (1907-1971). She appeared with the Metropolitan Opera from 1936 to 1948. After her career with the Met, she performed as a famed concert performer. She also worked in the radio industry.

-- AndrewJKD  7/11/2009

Actor Matt Craven and make-up artist Sally Sutton have a daughter Josephine Crnkovich, born 1995.

-- MaggieSimpson  9/16/2009

Comments for JOSÉPHINE:

Actually, Josephine was the *first* wife of Napolean. He had a second one. [noted -ed]

-- echo_of_the_past  10/9/2005

Joséphine was indeed Bonaparte's first wife and her granddaughter who was named after her became queen of Sweden and Norway in the early 19th Century, and the first practicing Catholic queen since the Middle Ages.

-- Cracknell  2/7/2006

Josephine was the full name of a character in Les Miserables, who was Fantine's friend when they were in Paris. She was nicknamed Zephine.

-- dogstar21  9/3/2009

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