girls:
13.7k births since 1887
#1320 (77th percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1925
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
13.8k births since 1887
#2230 (71st percentile)
The name Josefina is the #2,230 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,764 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 71.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,320 (76.9% percentile) for all time with 13,729 births since 1887. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1925.
Josefina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for girls and 1925 for boys). Birth data for Josefina is available in 134 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (134 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Josefina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Josefina reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 31.4% percentile (ranked #407) with 176 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 176 births per million (ranked 31.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Josefina ranks #871 for girls (8.0% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 26.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Josefina reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #724) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Josefina".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Josefina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.2% confident that Josefina is pronounced as joh-zuh-FEE-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOH-zuh-FEE-nuh, at 14.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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