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Josina

Girls' name

Diminutive of Josepha or Josephine

Josina has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1978, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Josina, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Josina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Josepha or Josephine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Josina means

Josina is a diminutive of Josepha or Josephine.

Origin, language, and formation

Josina is used in Dutch.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Josepha and Josephine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 38 girls were recorded with the name Josina between 1929 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1978; its best national rank was #4,924 in 1929.

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 Josina?

Josina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Josina 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Josina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Josina was born before 1981 — so the typical Josina is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
33
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Choose a decade

1970s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Josina 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 1978 (6)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,924
1929

Spellings of Josina

Josina is not the most common spelling — Joanna is, with 32.5% against Josina's 0.01%.

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.

Josina around the world

Where Josina 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.

  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Josina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,924
1929
Peak year
1978
6 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Josina

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

JoselinaJosalinaAilinaZafinaZaminaJosettYukinaSevinaAelinaAylinaJosaphinaSofinaJosannaJovinaJoselyEdelinaAzinaRejinaEvinaDaminaJoslenJosianeFainaZalina

Sibling names for Josina

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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