Josaphine
Josaphine was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,468 among girls’ names; 201 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josaphine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josaphine?
#10,468 among girls’ names, 2025
Josaphine fell from #10,460 in 2015 to #10,468 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
11 babies in 2004, the peak
Josaphine peaked in 2004, when 11 girls were given it, #9,535 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,468 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,390 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,652 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,549 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,634 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,108 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,438 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,460 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,827 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,591 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #15,834 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,740 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,705 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,037 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,169 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,599 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,976 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,371 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,535 | 6.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,169 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,930 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,228 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,507 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,417 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,472 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josaphine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josaphine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josaphine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josaphine, and how old are they?
An estimated 199 Americans named Josaphine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 10 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 283 people named Josaphine (277 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 338,444 babies since 1880, Josaphine is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 4,252 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Josaphine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Josaphine and names like it
- Compare Josaphine and JosephineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJosaphine peaked in 2004.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Josaphine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Josaphine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.