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Jozefina

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jozefina has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2018. 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 2018, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jozefina, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jozefina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jozefina means

Jozefina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jozefina is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jozefina is pronounced /jozefǐːna/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Jozefina between 2018 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2018; its best national rank was #14,641 in 2018.

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 Jozefina?

Jozefina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jozefina 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jozefina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jozefinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jozefina was born before 2018 — so the typical Jozefina is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Jozefina 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 2018 (6)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,641
2018

Spellings of Jozefina

Jozefina is not the most common spelling — Josefina is, with 95.1% against Jozefina's 0.04%.

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.

Jozefina around the world

Where Jozefina 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
    2008–2020
    #4,535
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jozefina 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
#14,641
2018
Peak year
2018
6 that year
First recorded
2018
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jozefina

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

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Sibling names for Jozefina

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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