Josetta
Feminine · “he will add”
Josetta looks Italian and is not: Italian turns Joseph into Giuseppe, and his feminine into Giuseppina, never Josetta. The name is an English-language build, the French Josette with a final a in place of the French e.
How old is the name Josetta?
Josetta first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Josetta alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 400 people named Josetta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Josetta most popular?
Josetta peaked in 1968, reaching #2360 nationally. See the whole 1968 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yosef to Josetta
The story of Josetta
The Italian equivalents of Joseph all begin with the sound Italian writes gi: Giuseppe, Giuseppa, Giuseppina, and the pet form Pina. Italian ordinarily writes that sound with gi rather than j, so a Jo- at the front is enough to show that Josetta did not come from Italy. It sits instead between the French Josette and English habits of respelling, and no record names the family or the place where the two were first joined.
Meaning
he will add, through Joseph
Josetta is built on Josette, the French feminine diminutive of Joseph, with an ending that looks Italian. Joseph comes from the Hebrew Yosef, he will add.
How the name formed
- Yosef
- Joseph
- Josette
- Josetta
Related forms: Josette · Giuseppina · Josefa
Pronouncing Josetta
joh-SET-uh
Americans usually say joh-SET-uh or joh-ZET-uh; neither is wrong, since the name has no home language to settle it.
Nicknames for Josetta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 196827 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2360reached in 1968
- Change vs 2013
- 0.0%5 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Josetta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Josette in French — related form
- Giuseppina in Italian — related form
- Josefa in Spanish — related form
Josettas among us
people named Josetta are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Josetta sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Links to Joseph and Josephine for a family honoring either.
- Three syllables with the stress in the middle, and easy short forms in Jo and Josie.
- It will be heard as Josette, Rosetta or Loretta and spelled accordingly.
- Italian speakers will recognize it as not Italian, which matters only to a family that wants it read as Italian.
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Frequently asked
- How many Josettas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Josetta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Josetta in 2025?
- Josetta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Josetta with classmates?
- Josetta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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