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Josephina

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,733 for girls

Josephina is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies) and 1,733rd for girls in the US (117 babies).

What does Josephina mean?

Hebrew

A female given name from Hebrew.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Josephina a girl's or a boy's name?

Josephina is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK and 117 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Josephina in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,276th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 175% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Josephina, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2009, with 6 girls.

2025 had more girls named Josephina than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Josephina in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were given Josephina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,870, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

2000Busiest: 6 in 20092025
Josephina in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20243#5,966
20233#5,929
20223#5,885
20210–
20200–
20190–
20184#4,914
20170–
20166#3,788
20153#5,983
20144#4,888
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20096#3,603
20085#4,065
20074#4,494
20060–
20050–
20040–
20034#3,768
20025#3,047
20010–
20004#3,399

How popular is Josephina in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,733rd among girls
Babies in 2025
117 about 1 in 14,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady up 13% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 117 girls in the US were named Josephina, making it the 1,733rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,977th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 118 girls. It first appears in the records in 1912.

Half of all the girls named Josephina in the US since 1880 were born between 1985 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 221 girls in the US were given Josephina or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #994, up from #1,733 for this spelling alone.

1912Busiest: 118 in 20232025
Josephina in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025117#1,733
2024112#1,796
2023118#1,736
2022103#1,930
202198#1,980
202095#1,977
201995#2,011
2018116#1,762
2017103#1,943
2016115#1,799
201589#2,138
201485#2,213
201378#2,344
201274#2,474
201173#2,482
201073#2,514
200963#2,799
200885#2,295
200768#2,684
200665#2,728
200557#2,861
200466#2,523
200370#2,365
200269#2,328
200145#3,087
200039#3,399
199953#2,637
199835#3,423
199737#3,158
199632#3,500
199535#3,215
199436#3,163
199324#4,252
199238#3,031
199135#3,153
199025#3,998
198921#4,352
198815#5,316
198718#4,471
198621#3,888
198529#3,083
198419#3,989
198321#3,686
198232#2,830
198122#3,624
198020#3,852
197926#3,147
197823#3,283
197721#3,485
197616#3,961
197519#3,513
197418#3,558
197316#3,786
197213#4,299
197126#2,736
197018#3,435
196919#3,101
196818#3,056
196715#3,339
196613#3,557
196519#2,832
196415#3,378
196316#3,175
196218#2,921
196114#3,459
196016#3,094
195921#2,516
195814#3,231
195712#3,488
19569#4,160
195511#3,570
195415#2,888
195314#2,920
195211#3,371
195115#2,693
195010#3,422
194913#2,849
194812#2,973
194719#2,278
194610#3,216
19455#4,554
194410#2,945
19438#3,492
19425#4,620
19410–
19405#4,347
19397#3,427
19385#4,340
19370–
19360–
19356#3,740
19340–
19337#3,405
19328#3,272
193113#2,306
193011#2,689
19299#3,135
19288#3,434
19276#4,284
19265#4,849
19259#3,361
192410#3,143
192311#2,916
19229#3,377
19216#4,462
19206#4,396
191912#2,639
19180–
19176#4,081
19169#3,029
19150–
19140–
19138#2,330
19126#2,632

Names like Josephina

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Eliana, Isabella, Ariella, Ava, Gabriella, Arabella, Mia, Fatima, Athena, Zara, Jessica, Olivia

Other spellings of Josephina

Josefina

Names related to Josephina

Josephine, Josefine, Josaphine

More Hebrew names

Noah, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie, Levi

Every Hebrew name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Josephina: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/josephina, updated 20 October 2026.