Josefita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Josefita has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 1888. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1900, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Josefita, 1947
1 in 600,000
Josefita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Josefita?
Josefita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1947
- 1 in 600,000
- 6 of 3,602,100 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1947
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 416,132 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Josefita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1947 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 416,132 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josefita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Josefitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Josefita was born before 1914 — so the typical Josefita is around 111 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1900s
- 24.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1900s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (59).
Is Josefita 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1900 (12)
- Years since peak
- 125
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Josefita
Josefita is not the most common spelling — Josefina is, with 71.6% against Josefita's 1.3%.
Where Josefita is used
Across 1910–2025, Josefita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 8,542 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New Mexico1 in 8,333
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. Josefita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Josefita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Josefita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Josefita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.