Jósefina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jósefina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Venezuela it is the 8th most common given name.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 463(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 876
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 877
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #452 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 463 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Josefina in VE Venezuela, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Josefina är en femininform till → Josef. Det var populärt under 1800-talet, i vardagsbruk ofta som kortformen Fina. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 19 mars efter drottning Josefina (1807–76) (→ Josefin).
Sources 3
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jósefina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #185 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 876 | — | Josefina | 94 |
| AR Argentina | #203 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 890 | 1.6K | Josefina | 139 |
| US United States | — | 45,594 | 1 in 7.3K | 45K | Josefina | 355 |
| ES Spain | #182 | 36,842 | 1 in 1.4K | 40K | Josefina | 165 |
| VE Venezuela | #8 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 877 | — | Josefina | 81 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #12 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | — | Josefina | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8,585 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.6K | Josefina | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Jósefina a male or female name?
- Jósefina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jósefina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Jósefina in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josefina.
- How common is the name Jósefina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 45,594 people named Jósefina in 2020, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Jósefina compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jósefina is the 185th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%B3sefinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jósefina” — the 185th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.