Girl · Hebrew, through Spanish
Josefina
Say it: hoh-seh-FEE-nah
Meaning
Spanish feminine of José, from Hebrew Yosef 'he will add'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A late 19th- and 20th-century favourite in Mexico and Argentina, revived in Argentina recently.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 13,495 babies given this name since 1887
- At its height in 1930, about 1 in 5,500 girls
- 71 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Fina, Chepina
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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