"Variant of Josephine"
The name Josefine is commonly a female name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Josefine is the German and Scandinavian spelling of Josephine, the feminine form of Joseph. Joseph goes back to the Hebrew Yosef, a name tied to the Hebrew root meaning "to add". The f spelling is the standard one in German, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, which is why it appears in United States records separately from Josephine.
Josephine means "God will increase, God had added a child. A feminine form of Joseph".
The pronunciation of Josefine is JOH-zuh-feen.
