Girls' name · since 1917
Jozefa
Since 1917, U.S. Social Security records show 11 babies named Jozefa, peaking in 1918. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 11
- total births
- 1917–1918
- years on record
- 1910s
- peak decade
- 100%
- born in that decade
Jozefa is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 11 have been recorded since 1917.
Jozefa has 11 recorded births among girls since 1917, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1910s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1917 to 1918.
- 11 total births
- 1917–1918 years on record
- 1910s peak decade
- 100% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jozefa's 11 recorded births place it above 25% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jozefa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jozefa's full recorded timeline at 1918, 55% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 45% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1917, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1918 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jozefa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1917–1918
- Peak year (1918)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Jozefa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1910s was Jozefa's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Jozefa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1910s at 11 births (100% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1917–1918 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jozefa: Baby Name Since 1917 - 11 Births, Peak 1918." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jozefa. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jozefa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.