How popular is the name Josefina?

Josefina ranks 1,013th among girls' names in US records, with 17,231 births since 1887. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,878.

Is Josefina a unisex name?

No. Josefina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1930, when 216 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,013 of girl names

Pronounced JH OW0 Z AH0 F IY1 N AH0 (ARPABET)

Josefina is a girls' name, and first appears in 1887. It has been given to 17,231 children — the 1,013th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 1930, when 216 children were given it.

1930Girls: 216Boys: 5

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

How popular is the name Josefina?: Josefina ranks 1,013th among girls' names in US records, with 17,231 births since 1887. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,878.
Is Josefina a unisex name?: No. Josefina is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Josefina most popular?: 1930, when 216 children were given the name. It has been in use for 138 years and is still recorded as of 2024.