Entry № 5004 · French origin

Josette Josette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ zhoh-ZET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"God will add (French diminutive of Joséphine)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (French)

A name that means "god will add (french diminutive of joséphine)".

Josette is the French diminutive of Joséphine — from the Hebrew Yōsēph (God will add, He will increase). Josette Frank — American children's literature advocate. Josette Walmsley — modern British figure. Three's Company (1977-1984) character Janet Wood's name had French variants.

God will add.

The name in its native script.

Josette
Transliteration
Josette
Pronunciation
/ ʒoʊˈzɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Josette stands.

Josette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Josettes before her.

Real people
Josette Day
French La Belle et la Bête actress.
1914 – 1978
Josette Simon
Olivier-winning British actress.
born 1962
In fiction
Josette
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Josette.

The number behind Josette.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Josette reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.