How Many People Are Named Josefine?

635

people named Josefine are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 538,243 people in the US has this name

Based on 707 babies named Josefine in Social Security records from 1918 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#14,205

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#8,085

See the top 100

Peak Year

2021

26 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German
Pronunciation: yo-se-FEEN (Swedish), yo-ze-FEE-nə (German)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Scandinavian and German form of JOSÉPHINE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Josefine in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Josefine alive today is about 23 years old, and 74% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 30 in 2025.

Under 30 472
74.4%
30 to 59 90
14.2%
60 and over 72
11.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Josefine first appears in the records in 1918 and was given most often in 2021, to 26 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1918 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Josefine has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,943, in 1930. In 2025 it ranked #7,285.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,285
Best rank#2,943 (1930)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#7,514 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Josefine alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Josefine were born in California than in any other state: about 58 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Josefine was given about 5.1 times as often in California.

California 58
Texas 20
New York 5

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