Josefá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josefá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of sosEE.
- ESSpain1 in 221(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 328
- BRBrazil1 in 771
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #810 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
274,653 people, 2022
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Josefa in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain 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)
Feminine form of sosEE.
Sources 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Josefá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #92 | 274,653 | 1 in 771 | 343K | Josefa | 105 |
| ES Spain | #65 | 225,853 | 1 in 221 | 247K | Josefa | 171 |
| AR Argentina | #251 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 15 | Josefa | 56 |
| VE Venezuela | #135 | 27,926 | 1 in 1K | 28K | Josefa | 41 |
| PH Philippines | #803 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Josefa | 64 |
| NI Nicaragua | #24 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Josefa | 25 |
| CL Chile | #278 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 999 | 1.7K | Josefa | 107 |
274,653 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 343K | #135 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2006 | 2 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2011 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Josefá mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of sosEE. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 3 other sources.
- Is Josefá a male or female name?
- Josefá 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 Josefá have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 275 thousand people named Josefá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled josefa.
- Where is Josefá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Josefá is densest in Spain — about 1 in 221 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Josefá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 274,653 people named Josefá in 2022, about 1 in 771 residents.
- How common is Josefá compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Josefá is the 92nd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/josef%C3%A1The 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, “Josefá” — the 92nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.