Josefa
Josefa reached its high-water mark in 1925 at number 806, and has been recorded 4,062 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 1,700 Josefas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Josefa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,062
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1925
- Best rank
- 806th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Josefas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,062 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,700 are alive — 42 in every hundred. Roughly 180 of them are children and 640 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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 Josefas
- Josefa Iloilo (1920–2011)President of Fiji from 2000 to 2009
- Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684)Portuguese and Spanish artist
- Josefa Idem (born 1964)German-born Italian canoeist and politician
- Josefa Francisco (1954–2015)women's rights activist
- Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (1768–1829)Mexican insurgent
- Josefa de Tudó, 1st Countess of Castillo Fiel (1779–1869)Spanish noble
- Josefa Llanes Escoda (1898–1945)Filipino heroine and suffragist
- Josefa Naval Girbés (1820–1893)Spanish Secular Carmelite
People named Josefa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Josefa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Josefa is most concentrated in Texas (11.4×), New Mexico (4.0×), Arizona (0.9×), California (0.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1925
The most popular girls’ names the year Josefa peaked:
Josefa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Josefa +1 spelling | 1,220 | 320th |
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.
Josefa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Josefa | — | 20 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Josefa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 225,853 women called Josefa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murcia | Josefa | 20,268 | 25.587 | 2 |
| Jaén | Josefa | 5,731 | 18.358 | 10 |
| Cádiz | Josefa | 11,622 | 18.136 | 5 |
| Huelva | Josefa | 4,767 | 17.563 | 6 |
| Albacete | Josefa | 3,310 | 17.007 | 5 |
| Córdoba | Josefa | 6,420 | 16.244 | 9 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Josefa 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.