Josefina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Josephine
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xosefina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Josefina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Venezuela it is the 8th most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 463(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 876
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 877
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #452 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 463 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, equivalent to English Josephine
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Josefina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josefina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #185 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 876 | — | Josefina | 94 |
| AR Argentina | #203 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 1.6K | Josefina | 139 |
| US United States | — | 45,594 | 1 in 7.3K | 45K | Josefina | 355 |
| ES Spain | #182 | 36,842 | 1 in 1.4K | 40K | Josefina | 165 |
| VE Venezuela | #8 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 877 | — | Josefina | 81 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #12 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | — | Josefina | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8,585 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.6K | Josefina | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Josefina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Josefina är en femininform till → Josef. Det var populärt under 1800-talet, i vardagsbruk ofta som kortformen Fina. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 19 mars efter drottning Josefina (1807–76) (→ Josefin).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Spanish, Diminutive of Josefa
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Infanta Josefa Fernanda of Spainb. 1827ESnot in their usual nameSpanish infanta of the XIXth century, morganaticly married to José Güell (1827–1910)
- Louise of Swedenb. 1851SEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Denmark; wife of Frederick VIII of Denmark
- Josefina Plab. 1903ESParaguayan sculptor, ceramist, dramatist, poet, and historian (1903–1999)
- Fina García Marruzb. 1923CUnot in their usual nameCuban writer (1923–2022)
- Josefina Echánoveb. 1928MXMexican actress (1928–2020)
- Josefina Castellvíb. 1935ESSpanish women scientist, biologist, oceanographer and writer
- Josefina Molinab. 1936ESSpanish film director
- Carolina Herrerab. 1939VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan-American fashion designer
- Josefina Vázquez Motab. 1961MXMexican politician
- Claudia Gallib. 1978SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45K | #961 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 40K | #114 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37K | #217 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8.6K | #439 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 1.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 1.6K | #94 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 104 | #961 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 104 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Josefina?
- In the etymology graph, Jo, Josephine and Josefa are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Josefina?
- A machine transcription gives /xosefina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Josefina mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Josephine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Josefina a male or female name?
- Josefina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Josefina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Josefina in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josefina.
- How common is the name Josefina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,594 people named Josefina in 2020, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Josefina compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Josefina is the 185th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Josefina?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josefinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josefina” — the 185th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.