Josie’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Josie
Josie's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Josie's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Josie: meaning and origin
Josie is a diminutive of Josephine, says Behind the Name. Josephine is the English, German and Dutch form of the French Joséphine. Wikipedia also describes Josie as a given name that is often a diminutive of Josephine. Today plenty of girls get Josie on its own, with no longer name behind it.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Josephine, Josepha and Josephina as full forms of Josie, and Jo, Jodie, Joey, Josey, Posy and Posie among English relatives. Jo is the everyday short form, and Josephine is the usual formal name for a Josie.
Famous people named Josie
Josie Natori, born Josefina Almeda Cruz on May 9, 1947, in the Philippines, is a Filipino-American fashion designer and the founder and CEO of The Natori Company. Wikipedia says she played piano as a soloist with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra at age nine, moved to the United States in 1964 for college, and in 2007 received the Order of Lakandula, one of the highest civilian awards in the Philippines.
Is Josie a popular name?
Josie has a long US history. The Social Security decade tables have it 131st in the 1880s and 173rd in the 1890s, about 4,210 girls across those decades. Unlike most Victorian names, it never left: Behind the Name’s US chart shows a steady climb from 250th in 2015 to 82nd in 2025, the best year on record for Josie.
Josie trivia
Josie’s family includes some sweet surprises. Behind the Name lists Posy and Posie as English diminutives of Josephine, so a Josephine might grow up as Josie, Jo or even Posy. In French the same family gives Josette and Fifi.
Gift ideas that suit a Josie
- For a fashion lover. A notebook for designs, fabrics and style ideas.
- For a pianist. A practice diary for pieces, scales and recitals.
- For Mother’s Day. A keepsake journal for a Josephine-family name.
- For Christmas. A cheerful holiday journal for Josie.
How Josie can use it
Any Josie, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Josie can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Josie’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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