Josefine
- #7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · girls
- 1930 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 707since 1918
Josefine over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Josefine has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
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| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 |
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| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | |
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| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 |
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First appearance
1918
The first year at least five girls were named Josefine! It came in at #3,869, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1925, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Josefine is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Josefine in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,518 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #7,133)
- 1,819 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,133)
- 133 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #7,133)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1930 at #2,845 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1931, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 63,110
- Highest: 1 in 63,110 girls born in 2021 were named Josefine (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,845 in 1930, was only 1 in 112,593 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 21.6% of all girls named Josefine (153) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,869 (1918) | #3,869 |
| 1920s | 26 | #3,269 (1926) | #4,256 |
| 1930s | 15 | #2,845 (1930) | #3,548 |
| 1940s | 31 | #3,665 (1946) | #4,462 |
| 1950s | 42 | #3,747 (1958) | #4,780 |
| 1960s | 22 | #5,696 (1960) | #6,238 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 50 | #6,212 (1983) | #9,727 |
| 1990s | 86 | #6,264 (1993) | #8,118 |
| 2000s | 153 | #6,125 (2006) | #7,491 |
| 2010s | 151 | #5,152 (2018) | #7,930 |
| 2020s | 124 | #4,964 (2021) | #5,908 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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