Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Jozefa isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jozefa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1918. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 559 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jozefa’s family of names
In Breton usage, Jozefa has a conventional equivalent in the French form Josèphe.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jozefa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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