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Josefine

#7,285 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Joséphine

Josefine has been given to 707 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #7,285 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Josefine, 2025

1 in 221,000

Josefine over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josefine: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Joséphine

French

What Josefine means

Josefine is a form of Joséphine.

Origin, language, and formation

Josefine is used in Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joséphine, Josephine and Josef.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 707 girls were recorded with the name Josefine between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,943 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,387 in 2020 to #7,285 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,427 in 2015 to #7,285 in 2025.

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 Josefine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,285
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josefine 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josefine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josefines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josefine was born before 2005 — so the typical Josefine is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
628
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (153).

Is Josefine 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
−1,588
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,898
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+142
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.7%
Peak was 2021 (26)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,943
1930

Spellings of Josefine

Josefine is not the most common spelling — Josephine is, with 92.2% against Josefine's 0.20%.

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 Josefine is used

Across 1910–2025, Josefine was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 434,044 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Josefine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Josefine around the world

Where Josefine 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
    1998–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    1972–1999
    #4,763
    in 1999
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #24
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–1976
    #645
    in 1976

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

Josefine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,285
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,898
Best rank ever
#2,943
1930
Peak year
2021
26 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
707
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Josefine

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

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Sibling names for Josefine

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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