Meaning not yet researched.
Josefa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #554 in 1890.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #554 in 1890; #8,590 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josefa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,590 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1890, at #554.
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Josefa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #554 in 1890 · most girls in one year: 84 (1925).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Josefa, making it the 8,590th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,078 places from #6,512 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 18 girls named Josefa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #554, reached in 1890. The most girls given the name in a single year was 84, in 1925. For comparison, it was #15,363 in 2015 and #1,485 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josefa in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 4,062 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 726 babies named Josefa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 106 US girls were named Josefa; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Josefina (13,967 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Josepha, Giuseppa and Jozefa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Josepha (407), Giuseppa (22), Jozefa (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Josefa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,590 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,512 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,701 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,253 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,593 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,209 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,668 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,237 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,113 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,443 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,363 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,502 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,486 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,039 | — | — |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,874 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,712 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,129 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,910 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,829 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,043 | — | — |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,325 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,133 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,824 | — | — |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,610 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,450 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,496 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,320 | — | — |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,308 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,644 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,905 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,305 | — | — |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,561 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,747 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,782 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,946 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,228 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,563 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,039 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,360 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,930 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,939 | — | — |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1955 | 29 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,562 | — | — |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1940 | 45 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1939 | 35 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1937 | 41 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1935 | 45 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1934 | 55 | #930 | — | — |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1932 | 58 | #926 | — | — |
| 1931 | 71 | #807 | — | — |
| 1930 | 63 | #922 | — | — |
| 1929 | 68 | #864 | — | — |
| 1928 | 74 | #842 | — | — |
| 1927 | 65 | #930 | — | — |
| 1926 | 71 | #883 | — | — |
| 1925 | 84 | #811 | — | — |
| 1924 | 79 | #847 | — | — |
| 1923 | 66 | #903 | — | — |
| 1922 | 81 | #811 | — | — |
| 1921 | 72 | #870 | — | — |
| 1920 | 66 | #899 | — | — |
| 1919 | 66 | #861 | — | — |
| 1918 | 63 | #906 | — | — |
| 1917 | 56 | #930 | — | — |
| 1916 | 40 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1915 | 57 | #867 | — | — |
| 1914 | 42 | #911 | — | — |
| 1913 | 38 | #859 | — | — |
| 1912 | 46 | #740 | — | — |
| 1911 | 39 | #701 | — | — |
| 1910 | 35 | #713 | — | — |
| 1909 | 28 | #767 | — | — |
| 1908 | 25 | #780 | — | — |
| 1907 | 31 | #683 | — | — |
| 1906 | 30 | #671 | — | — |
| 1905 | 22 | #789 | — | — |
| 1904 | 21 | #790 | — | — |
| 1903 | 18 | #825 | — | — |
| 1902 | 17 | #859 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #755 | — | — |
| 1900 | 19 | #874 | — | — |
| 1899 | 11 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1898 | 20 | #761 | — | — |
| 1897 | 20 | #705 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #694 | — | — |
| 1895 | 28 | #570 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #729 | — | — |
| 1893 | 19 | #673 | — | — |
| 1892 | 19 | #676 | — | — |
| 1891 | 14 | #737 | — | — |
| 1890 | 23 | #554 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #583 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #991 | — | — |
| 1887 | 11 | #714 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #862 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #677 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #765 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #868 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #617 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #883 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).