Given name & surname · also Old Spanish
Josafat
Josafat is a masculine given name from Old Spanish, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Josafat comes from Old Spanish, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Spanish Josaphat, from Late Latin Iōsaphat, from Ancient Greek Ἰωσαφάτ, from Hebrew יְהוֹשָׁפָט (Yehōšāp̄āṭ).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Josafat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 459
- 459 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,929 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −14%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,929 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 14.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 2003. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (5). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 785 as a first name in 2020; 137 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Josafat’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Josafat has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Josafá. In Portuguese usage, Josafat has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Jozafat.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Josafat
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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