Meaning not yet researched.
Josefina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 104 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 1930.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 1930; #1,891 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Josefina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,891 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1930, at #468.
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Josefina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 104 girls in 2025. Peak: #468 in 1930 · most girls in one year: 205 (1930).
In 2025, 104 US girls were named Josefina, making it the 1,891st most common girls’ name of the year, up 169 places from #2,060 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 94 girls named Josefina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #468, reached in 1930. That year also had the most girls given the name: 205. For comparison, it was #2,081 in 2015 and #616 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Josefina in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 6 babies. In all, 13,967 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,670 babies named Josefina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 851 US girls were named Josefina; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Josefina ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,133 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Josephine (332,458 babies since 1880), Josefa (4,062 babies since 1880) and Josephina (3,494 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jozefina 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 Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jozefina (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Josefina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,133 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,179 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,483 | #2,234 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,573 | #2,720 |
| California | 14 | #1,617 | #1,130 |
| New York | 5 | #2,238 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 104 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 2022 | 100 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 2021 | 87 | #2,163 | — | — |
| 2020 | 73 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2016 | 85 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2015 | 94 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,813 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1999 | 117 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 1998 | 122 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1997 | 114 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 1996 | 126 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1995 | 129 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1992 | 124 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1991 | 136 | #1,245 | 6 | #7,729 |
| 1990 | 125 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1988 | 131 | #1,170 | 7 | #6,106 |
| 1987 | 119 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1986 | 118 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1985 | 122 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1983 | 140 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1982 | 153 | #968 | — | — |
| 1981 | 167 | #899 | — | — |
| 1980 | 175 | #876 | — | — |
| 1979 | 147 | #977 | — | — |
| 1978 | 123 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1977 | 143 | #968 | — | — |
| 1976 | 129 | #990 | — | — |
| 1975 | 155 | #865 | — | — |
| 1974 | 134 | #932 | — | — |
| 1973 | 142 | #887 | — | — |
| 1972 | 129 | #946 | — | — |
| 1971 | 138 | #936 | — | — |
| 1970 | 134 | #950 | — | — |
| 1969 | 117 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1968 | 129 | #910 | — | — |
| 1967 | 145 | #837 | — | — |
| 1966 | 118 | #933 | — | — |
| 1965 | 125 | #902 | — | — |
| 1964 | 130 | #918 | — | — |
| 1963 | 140 | #890 | — | — |
| 1962 | 136 | #906 | — | — |
| 1961 | 110 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1960 | 119 | #980 | — | — |
| 1959 | 122 | #953 | — | — |
| 1958 | 109 | #996 | — | — |
| 1957 | 125 | #914 | — | — |
| 1956 | 123 | #905 | — | — |
| 1955 | 130 | #851 | — | — |
| 1954 | 154 | #745 | — | — |
| 1953 | 142 | #769 | — | — |
| 1952 | 159 | #707 | — | — |
| 1951 | 153 | #707 | — | — |
| 1950 | 186 | #616 | — | — |
| 1949 | 147 | #698 | — | — |
| 1948 | 156 | #669 | — | — |
| 1947 | 133 | #742 | — | — |
| 1946 | 130 | #708 | — | — |
| 1945 | 134 | #629 | — | — |
| 1944 | 105 | #744 | — | — |
| 1943 | 114 | #722 | — | — |
| 1942 | 82 | #849 | — | — |
| 1941 | 89 | #763 | 6 | #3,317 |
| 1940 | 96 | #712 | — | — |
| 1939 | 94 | #702 | — | — |
| 1938 | 96 | #702 | — | — |
| 1937 | 102 | #675 | — | — |
| 1936 | 96 | #682 | — | — |
| 1935 | 125 | #576 | — | — |
| 1934 | 114 | #623 | — | — |
| 1933 | 127 | #567 | — | — |
| 1932 | 132 | #570 | — | — |
| 1931 | 151 | #540 | — | — |
| 1930 | 205 | #468 | 5 | #4,281 |
| 1929 | 202 | #472 | — | — |
| 1928 | 204 | #478 | 5 | #4,446 |
| 1927 | 179 | #528 | — | — |
| 1926 | 198 | #495 | — | — |
| 1925 | 158 | #571 | 6 | #3,959 |
| 1924 | 153 | #603 | — | — |
| 1923 | 167 | #560 | — | — |
| 1922 | 143 | #607 | — | — |
| 1921 | 125 | #661 | — | — |
| 1920 | 130 | #630 | — | — |
| 1919 | 102 | #697 | — | — |
| 1918 | 87 | #768 | — | — |
| 1917 | 70 | #822 | — | — |
| 1916 | 82 | #756 | — | — |
| 1915 | 46 | #982 | — | — |
| 1914 | 51 | #820 | — | — |
| 1913 | 52 | #730 | — | — |
| 1912 | 54 | #683 | — | — |
| 1911 | 36 | #728 | — | — |
| 1910 | 32 | #762 | — | — |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1908 | 24 | #801 | — | — |
| 1907 | 20 | #857 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #939 | — | — |
| 1905 | 16 | #948 | — | — |
| 1904 | 18 | #863 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1902 | 19 | #805 | — | — |
| 1901 | 12 | #981 | — | — |
| 1900 | 21 | #817 | — | — |
| 1899 | 15 | #859 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #976 | — | — |
| 1889 | 8 | #987 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,086 | — | — |
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).