Josefina
A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning god will increase; feminine form of Joseph.
Josefina by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Josefina. In the US, 81 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 205 babies in 1930, making it a 1930s name.
Other names that come from Joseph
Like Josefina, each of these traces back to Joseph: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Josephhe will add10,379 in the US (2017)
- JoseGod will increase; Spanish form of Joseph4,781 in the US (2017)
- Joeygod will increase; a form of Joseph324 in England and Wales (2025)
- Yosefgod will increase; a form of Joseph366 in the US (2017)
- Joegod will increase; a form of Joseph362 in the US (2017)
- Yousefgod increases; arabic form of Joseph95 in England and Wales (2025)
- Youssefgod increases; Arabic form of Joseph35 in England and Wales (2025)
- Joseygod increases; form of Joseph116 in the US (2017)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Josefina. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Josefinegod increases; a form of Josephine17 in the US (2017)
- Josephinagod shall increase; feminine form of Joseph102 in the US (2017)
- Joselinjoyful; a modern spelling of Jocelyn54 in the US (2017)
- Joselinegod will increase; variant of Josephine or Jocelyn51 in the US (2017)
- JosefaGod will increase; Spanish feminine form of Joseph9 in the US (2017)
- JosephineGod will add2,791 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean God
Like Josefina, each of these has God in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Isabellapledged to God15,112 in the US (2017)
- Elizabethmy God is an oath8,924 in the US (2017)
- Angelmessenger of God6,157 in the US (2017)
- Auroradawn; Roman goddess of sunrise1,030 in England and Wales (2025)
- SamanthaGod has heard; feminine form of Samuel4,308 in the US (2017)
- Micahwho is like God3,924 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Josefina
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