# Josefa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/josefa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,062 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 4,062 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 8,874 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,039 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,486 |
| 2014 | 6 | 15,502 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,363 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,443 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,113 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7,237 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,668 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,209 |
| 2021 | 8 | 11,593 |
| 2022 | 13 | 8,253 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,701 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6,512 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,590 |

## People named Josefa

- Josefa Idem, German-born Italian canoeist and politician
- Josefa Llanes Escoda, Filipino heroine and suffragist (1898–1945)
- Josefa Fabíola, Brazilian volleyball player
- Josefa Texidor i Torres, Catalan artist; painter of flowers (1865–1914)
- Gabriela Silang, Filipina insurgent leader
- Antoinette Meyer, alpine skier (1920-2010)
- Imee Marcos, Filipina politician and former actress (born 1955)
- Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria, Austrian princess
- Hendrina Stenmanns
- Maria-Pia Liechtenstein, Ambassador of Liechtenstein in Austria and the Czech Republic
- Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian composer
- Gabriela Tafur Nader, Colombian lawyer, model, and beauty queen

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.