Given name
Jozefina
Jozefina is a feminine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jozefina is a romanization of Йозефина. Йозефина comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jozefina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 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 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jozefina’s family of names
In Croatian usage, Jozefina has a conventional equivalent in the German form JOSEFINE. In Hungarian usage, Jozefina has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joséphine. In Hungarian usage, Jozefina has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Józefina.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jozefina has relatives in 4 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jozefina
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