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Josefina

#1,891 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Josephine

Josefina has been given to 13,967 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #1,891 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1930, with 205 recorded.

Babies named Josefina, 2025

1 in 31,900

Josefina over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josefina: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Josephine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josefina means

Josefina is a English equivalent of Josephine.

Origin, language, and formation

Josefina is used in Catalan, Faroese, Spanish and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Josephine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Josefina is pronounced [ʒu.zəˈfi.nə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,932 girls were recorded with the name Josefina between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 205 in 1930; its best national rank was #468 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,404 in 2020 to #1,891 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,081 in 2015 to #1,891 in 2025.

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Josefina between 1925 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,316 in 1941.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Josefina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,900
104 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,891
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,096 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josefina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,096 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josefina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josefinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josefina was born before 1964 — so the typical Josefina is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
11.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,979
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1920s — 11.9% of all recorded uses (1,659).

Is Josefina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+169
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+513
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+190
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.7%
Peak was 1930 (205)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#468
1930

Spellings of Josefina

Josefina is the most-used spelling, taking 46.1% of the 30,197 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Josefina is used

Across 2016–2025, Josefina was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 19,943 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 8,333
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3New York1 in 20,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 20,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Josefina around the world

Where Josefina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1929–1977
    #1,819
    in 1977
  • Canada
    2007–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #535
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Josefina

People whose public names include Josefina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Josefina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Josefina. Linked forms have their own page here.

JosefaJosefineJozefinaJosephinaJosephineJosefinJozefínaJózefinaIosephinaJosefiinaJoséphine

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Josefina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,891
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 513
Best rank ever
#468
1930
Peak year
1930
205 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,932
Count in 2025
104

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,316
1941
Peak year
1988
7 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Josefina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JosephinaJoselynJoselineJosselynGeorginaJosetteKatarinaJoslynKatalinaJosephKaterinaJoscelynJoselinCatalinaJustinaRosalinaJoslynnAdelinaMartinaJoselynnCatrinaKarolinaPaulinaAudrina

Names with a curve like Josefina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Josefina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FranciscaAngelitaKatherynPetraJuanaCorrineOfeliaLeonorWilliamAntoniaJamesEstela

Sibling names for Josefina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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