Josefine
Josefine was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,285 among girls’ names; 707 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josefine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Josefine mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Josefine is “a female given name from French Joséphine, masculine equivalent Josef”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Josefine?
#7,285 among girls’ names, 2025
Josefine rose from #7,427 in 2015 to #7,285 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 9.3 per million.
26 babies in 2021, the peak
Josefine peaked in 2021, when 26 girls were given it, #5,020 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,285 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,697 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,050 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,560 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,020 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,387 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,862 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,234 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,933 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,762 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,427 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,224 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,886 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,035 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,024 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,945 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,232 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,206 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,288 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,233 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,293 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,223 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,336 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,023 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,497 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,340 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,103 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,243 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,039 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,523 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,980 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,064 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,407 | 7.7 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,803 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,270 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,655 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,210 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,945 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,841 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,119 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,411 | 6.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,106 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,236 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,051 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,172 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,989 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,798 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,817 | 5.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,067 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,680 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,782 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,992 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,952 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,926 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,994 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,814 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,882 | 3.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,565 | 4.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,943 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,860 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,402 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,375 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,504 | 4.1 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,062 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josefine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josefine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josefine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josefine, and how old are they?
An estimated 633 Americans named Josefine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 925 people named Josefine (919 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 529 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 347,376 babies since 1880, Josefine is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 4,245 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Josefine
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 Josefine and names like it
- Compare Josefine and JosephineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJosefine peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Josefine since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Josefine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Josefine.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Josefine alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.