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Josephina

#1,743 in 2025Girls' name

(God) shall add, through Josephine

Josephina has been given to 3,494 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,743 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Josephina, 2025

1 in 28,300

Josephina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josephina: meaning, origin, and history

(God) shall add, through Josephine

Hebrew

What Josephina means

Josephina belongs to the name family reached through Josephina → Josephine → Joseph. Its meaning is “(God) shall add”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Latinate variant of Josephine. By surface analysis, Joseph + -ina.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Josephina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Josephina is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Josephine and Joseph.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,494 girls were recorded with the name Josephina between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,742 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,985 in 2020 to #1,743 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,145 in 2015 to #1,743 in 2025.

How common is Josephina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 28,300
117 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,743
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,641 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josephina 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 19,641 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josephina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josephinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josephina was born before 2007 — so the typical Josephina is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,230
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (901).

Is Josephina 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
+56
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+242
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.31×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
99.2%
Peak was 2023 (118)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,742
2023

Spellings of Josephina

Josephina is not the most common spelling — Josephine is, with 94.7% against Josephina's 1.00%.

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 Josephina is used

Across 2016–2025, Josephina was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 17,572 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 7,692
  2. 2Ohio1 in 8,333
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  4. 4New York1 in 11,111
  5. 5Virginia1 in 12,500
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 12,500
  7. 7Illinois1 in 14,286
  8. 8Arizona1 in 16,667

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.

Josephina around the world

Where Josephina 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–1973
    #2,325
    in 1973
  • Canada
    1999–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1948–1970
    #707
    in 1970

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 Josephina

People whose public names include Josephina, 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.

Josephina in other languages

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

JosephaJosefinaJosefineJosephineGiuseppinaJosipinaJozefínaJósefínaJózefinaIosephinaJosefiinaJoséphine

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

Josephina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,743
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 242
Best rank ever
#1,742
2023
Peak year
2023
118 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,494
Count in 2025
117

Names similar to Josephina

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

JosefinaJosselynJoselineJoscelynMarcelinaSeraphinaJoslynnCelestinaJoselynnErnestinaAugustinaJoselinJosselineMichelinaKatharinaJoselyneJosslynKatherinaJosalynSerafinaCarmelinaCatarinaJosetteCaterina

Names with a curve like Josephina

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

SereneKarolineChavaGreerAvivaAdoraRochelGittyCosetteBailaDevoraLovely

Sibling names for Josephina

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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