Entry № 5007 · Hebrew origin

Josie Josie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOH-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"God shall add"
Syllables
2
First recorded
19th c.

A name that means "god shall add".

Josie is the diminutive of Josephine — from the Hebrew Yosef, meaning "God shall add" (referring to the matriarch Rachel's prayer for more children).

Josie entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1880 and is rising again. The character Josie Pussycat (from Josie and the Pussycats) and Josie Geller in Never Been Kissed are well known. Today Josie sits in the U.S. top 300.

God shall add — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Josie
Transliteration
Josie
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒoʊ.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Josie stands.

Josie 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.

Josies before her.

Real people
Josie Maran
American model and businesswoman.
born 1978
In fiction
Josie Geller
Heroine of Never Been Kissed.
1999 film
Josie
Title character of Josie and the Pussycats.
1963 comic

Names connected to Josie.

The number behind Josie.

4

The Builder

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