Josefita
Josefita was last recorded in 1947, when 6 babies were given it; 244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1888 and 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Josefita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Josefita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,995, in 1947; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1900, the peak
Josefita peaked in 1900, when 12 girls were given it, #1,134 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 6 | #4,995 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,299 | 3.2 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,429 | 4.3 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,579 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,619 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,966 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,733 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,662 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,062 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,060 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 8 | #3,735 | 6.7 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,833 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,837 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,175 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,554 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,976 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,767 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,272 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,524 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,095 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,191 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,666 | 12.0 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,487 | 26.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,210 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,267 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,081 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,564 | 25.4 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,040 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,134 | 40.0 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,602 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,708 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,501 | 25.7 |
| 1893 | 10 | #992 | 47.0 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,555 | 23.5 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,085 | 39.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Josefita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Josefita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Josefita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Josefita, and how old are they?
An estimated 16 Americans named Josefita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 129 people named Josefita (129 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 27 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Josefita
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 Josefita and names like it
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