Jozefa
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jozefa is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and Hungarian, written in the Latin script.
- PLPoland1 in 310◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 8K
- CZCzechia1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈134K ●
- Sources
- 65 ●
- 1 in 310 ◐
across 11 countries
5.5K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #205 | 123,410△ | 271 rec. | 1 in 310 | 123K | Jozefa | 51 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 5,912△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 356 | 5.9K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,158△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 8K | 2.2K | Jozefa | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | #544 | 1,004△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 11K | 1K | Jozefa | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 829 | 0 rec. | 1 in 255K | 1.9K | Jozefa | 2 |
| US United States | — | 555 | 4.3K rec. | 1 in 599K | 555 | Jozefa | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 271 | 232 rec. | — | — | Jozefa | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | 177 | 170 rec. | — | 1 | Jozefa | 31 |
| HR Croatia | — | 134 | — | 1 in 32K | 134 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 134△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 76K | 134 | Jozefa | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | 97 | 90 rec. | — | — | Jozefa | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | 89 | 88 rec. | — | 1 | Jozefa | 20 |
Roughly 123K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 310). 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●
- Polish205K81%
- Hungarian17K7%
- Portuguese15K6%
- English5.4K2%
- Czech4.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 205,409 | 81% |
| Hungarian | 17,003 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 15,280 | 6% |
| English | 5,379 | 2% |
| Czech | 4,352 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jozefa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 85 |
| 2000 | 85 |
| 2001 | 83 |
| 2002 | 81 |
| 2003 | 76 |
| 2004 | 74 |
| 2005 | 68 |
| 2006 | 68 |
| 2007 | 67 |
| 2008 | 66 |
| 2009 | 67 |
| 2010 | 60 |
| 2011 | 57 |
| 2012 | 57 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 50 |
| 2015 | 51 |
| 2016 | 48 |
| 2017 | 47 |
| 2018 | 46 |
| 2019 | 45 |
| 2020 | 43 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gräfin Jozefa Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorkab. 1790(1790-1868)
- Jozefa Wesselényib. 1812HUHungarian writer (1812-1899)
- Josefine Ernst-Kaiserb. 1827HUnot in their usual nameHungarian singer
- Jozefa Medveb. 1831HUwife of Kornél Ábrányi (1831–1895)
- Jozefa Ellingerb. 1852HUopera singer (1852–1920)
- Szefi Bohuniczkyb. 1892HUnot in their usual nameHungarian writer
- Juzefa Matskevichb. 1911BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian philologist
- Jozefa Vadasb. 1915HUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Josefa Gurfinkelb. 1919RUnot in their usual nameUSSR and Russian chess player (1919–1997)
- Jozefa Šurkováb. 1924Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament and Slovak nation politician
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 36 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.2K | #778 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,907 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.9K | #6,236 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1K | #479 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 829 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 818 | #9,423 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 796 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 748 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 619 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 555 | #19,105 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 502 | #537 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 502 | #526 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jozefa?
- We estimate roughly 134 thousand people bear Jozefa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jozefa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 123 thousand people bear Jozefa in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jozefa.
- Where is Jozefa most common?
- Jozefa is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 310 people carrying it.
- How common is Jozefa compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jozefa is the 205th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Jozefa a male or female name?
- Jozefa 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.
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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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jozefa” — the 205th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.