Josefina

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Josefina is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 93 births. Its best rank was 468th, in 1930.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 930.01% of girls
Peak year: 1930205 births
Best rank: #468in 1930
Since 1887: 13,824people given the name

Babies named Josefina, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

13,824 girls have been named Josefina in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1930, with 205 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Josefina
1880s	14
1890s	66
1900s	174
1910s	612
1920s	1,659
1930s	1,242
1940s	1,186
1950s	1,402
1960s	1,269
1970s	1,374
1980s	1,367
1990s	1,240
2000s	998
2010s	787
2020s	434

In 1930, its biggest year

Josefina was the 468th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1930 were Mary, Betty, Dorothy, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1930.

Names that rose and fell with Josefina

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.