Josette

Where Josette comes from

Josette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    Josette Day born
    French actress
  2. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,552 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1932
    Josette Abondio born
    Ivory Coast playwright
  4. 1968
    Peak, #416
    504 babies named Josette — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #698.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Josette Day · French actress, 1914–1978
  • Josette Abondio · Ivory Coast playwright, born 1932
  • Josette Andriot · French actress, 1886–1942
  • Josette Simon · British actor, born 1959
  • Josette Banzet · actress, 1938–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.