Josefina

Where Josefina comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Josefina through the years
  1. 1887
    First appearance
    #1,036 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1903
    Josefina Plá born
    Paraguayan sculptor, ceramist, dramatist, poet, and historian
  3. 1930
    Peak, #468
    205 babies named Josefina, the most in any year.
  4. 1936
    Josefina Molina born
    Spanish film director
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #679.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Josefina Plá · Paraguayan sculptor, ceramist, dramatist, poet, and historian, 1903–1999
  • Josefina Molina · Spanish film director, 1936–2026
  • Josefina Vázquez Mota · Mexican politician, born 1961
  • Josefina de Latorre · Spanish actor, singer, novelist, poet, 1907–2002
  • Josefina Castellví · Spanish women scientist, biologist, oceanographer and writer, 1935–2026

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.