Josefina
Josefina reached its high-water mark in 1930 at number 468, and has been recorded 13,967 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,880th. About 9,400 Josefinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Josefina boys named Josefina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,967
- Estimated living today
- 9,400
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 468th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,880th
- First recorded
- 1887
- Girls / boys
- 13,932 / 35
How old the living Josefinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,967 babies given the name since 1887, about 9,400 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Josefinas
- Josefina Plá (1903–1999)Paraguayan sculptor, ceramist, dramatist, poet, and historian
- Josefina Molina (1936–2026)Spanish film director
- Josefina Sruoga (born 1990)Olympic field hockey player
- Josefina Vázquez Mota (born 1961)Mexican politician
- Josefina de Latorre (1907–2002)Spanish actor, singer, novelist, poet
- Josefina Castellví (1935–2026)Spanish women scientist, biologist, oceanographer and writer
People named Josefina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Josefina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Josefina is most concentrated in Texas (6.8×), New Mexico (3.1×), California (3.0×), Arizona (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular girls’ names the year Josefina peaked:
Josefina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Josefina | 150 | 625th |
| Switzerland girls | Josefina | 56 | 850th |
| England and Wales girls | Josefina | 53 | 3,035th |
| Poland girls | Josefina | 3 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Josefina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Josefina | 52 | 0.004% | 643rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Josefina | 2 | 0.000% | 617th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Josefina | 2 | 0.003% | 196th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Josefina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Josefina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Josefina | 646 | 3,973 |
| Finland girls | Josefina | 503 | 3,833 |
| the Netherlands boys | Josefina | — | 158 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,833 who carry it, 503 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Josefina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 36,842 women called Josefina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teruel | Josefina | 333 | 4.990 | 37 |
| Coruña, A | Josefina | 2,487 | 4.208 | 44 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Josefina | 1,174 | 3.721 | 54 |
| Huesca | Josefina | 402 | 3.560 | 51 |
| Valencia/València | Josefina | 3,882 | 2.751 | 75 |
| Cuenca | Josefina | 256 | 2.589 | 89 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Josefina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.