Josephina
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Josephina is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latinate variant of Josephine.
- NLNetherlands1 in 258◐
- TZTanzania1 in 9.2K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 21K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈72K ●
- Sources
- 176 ●
- 1 in 258 ◐
across 8 countries
28K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Latinate variant of Josephine.
Sources 2
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #64 | 67,046△ | 536 rec. | 1 in 258 | 67K | Josephina | 39 |
| US United States | — | 4,027 | 21K rec. | 1 in 83K | 4K | Josephina | 176 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,592 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Josephina | 14 |
| TZ Tanzania | #565 | 1,446 | 313 rec. | — | — | Josephina | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 922 | 846 rec. | — | listed | Josephina | 45 |
| PH Philippines | — | 775 | 739 rec. | — | — | Josephina | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 606 | 0 rec. | 1 in 349K | 921 | Josephina | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 556 | 512 rec. | — | 1 | Josephina | 48 |
| DE Germany | — | 491 | 381 rec. | — | 1 | Josephina | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | 414 | 377 rec. | — | 2 | Josephina | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | 371 | 7 rec. | — | 115 | Josephina | 13 |
| BE Belgium | — | 281 | 277 rec. | — | — | Josephina | 23 |
Roughly 67K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 258). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English97K32%
- Western Frisian81K27%
- Dutch74K24%
- Portuguese18K6%
- Spanish13K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 96,881 | 32% |
| Western Frisian | 81,239 | 27% |
| Dutch | 73,603 | 24% |
| Portuguese | 18,469 | 6% |
| Spanish | 13,101 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 6 |
| 1913 | 8 |
| 1916 | 9 |
| 1917 | 6 |
| 1919 | 12 |
| 1920 | 6 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1922 | 9 |
| 1923 | 11 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 9 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1928 | 8 |
| 1929 | 9 |
| 1930 | 11 |
| 1931 | 13 |
| 1932 | 8 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 7 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 19 |
| 1948 | 12 |
| 1949 | 13 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 11 |
| 1953 | 14 |
| 1954 | 15 |
| 1955 | 11 |
| 1956 | 9 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 14 |
| 1959 | 21 |
| 1960 | 16 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 18 |
| 1963 | 16 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 19 |
| 1966 | 13 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 19 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 26 |
| 1972 | 13 |
| 1973 | 16 |
| 1974 | 18 |
| 1975 | 19 |
| 1976 | 16 |
| 1977 | 21 |
| 1978 | 23 |
| 1979 | 26 |
| 1980 | 20 |
| 1981 | 22 |
| 1982 | 32 |
| 1983 | 21 |
| 1984 | 19 |
| 1985 | 29 |
| 1986 | 21 |
| 1987 | 18 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 21 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 35 |
| 1992 | 38 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 36 |
| 1995 | 35 |
| 1996 | 32 |
| 1997 | 37 |
| 1998 | 35 |
| 1999 | 53 |
| 2000 | 39 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 69 |
| 2003 | 70 |
| 2004 | 66 |
| 2005 | 57 |
| 2006 | 65 |
| 2007 | 68 |
| 2008 | 85 |
| 2009 | 63 |
| 2010 | 73 |
| 2011 | 73 |
| 2012 | 74 |
| 2013 | 78 |
| 2014 | 85 |
| 2015 | 89 |
| 2016 | 115 |
| 2017 | 103 |
| 2018 | 116 |
| 2019 | 95 |
| 2020 | 95 |
| 2021 | 98 |
| 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 118 |
| 2024 | 112 |
| 2025 | 117 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 107 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Josephina Therese Zürcherb. 1866CHSwiss medic (1866–1932)
- Archduchess Margaretha of Austriab. 1894UAnot in their usual nameAustro-Tuscan Imperial and Royal (1894-1986)
- Fien de la Marb. 1898NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress and comedian (1898-1965)
- Lode Vetsb. 1899BEnot in their usual nameBelgian viola player and composer (1899–1970)
- Mathilde Schroyensb. 1912BEnot in their usual nameBelgian politician (1912-1996)
- Riet Roosen-van Peltb. 1934NLnot in their usual nameDutch politician
- Jopie Troostb. 1942NLnot in their usual nameDutch swimmer
- Marie-José de Grootb. 1966NLnot in their usual nameDutch rower
- Cecile Janssensb. 1968NLnot in their usual nameDutch epidemiologist
- Josephina SykesROfilm producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 326 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Josephina?
- We estimate roughly 72 thousand people bear Josephina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Josephina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 67 thousand people bear Josephina in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled josephina.
- Where is Josephina most common?
- Josephina is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 258 people carrying it.
- How common is Josephina compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Josephina is the 64th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Josephina a male or female name?
- Josephina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Josephina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Latinate variant of Josephine.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Josephina” — the 64th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.