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Józefa

Around 41,000 Polish women carry it, yet it's barely given anymore: a name passed down, not freshly chosen. It's the feminine of Józef, from a root meaning "he will add," a Polish wish that God add good things.

Józefa Pronunciation

Józefa is pronounced yoo-ZE-fah (/juˈzɛfa/).

Alive in 2025
41,432
Newborns 2025
<2
National rank
#210
Also celebrates
18 November
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What Józefa means

Where Józefa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Józefa is the feminine form of Józef. They travel together. The meaning handed down for it is plain, he will add, and in Polish that opens into a wish, niech Bóg przyda dobra, may God add good things. The name reads as a small request for increase.

The variants stand close. Iosif carries the name eastward through the Slavic languages, while Józef remains its masculine partner at home. Feminine forms like Józefa often followed a male relative already named, a Józef answered by a Józefa in the next generation.

Józefa keeps her own name-day, chiefly 20 March, a day after Józef on 19 March. Look down a school register and you may find her filed near the Józefs, one syllable longer, holding the same old wish that good be added.

When Józefa celebrates name day

Józefa appears 7 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 January.

Next name day
18 November
Wednesday in 2026
Next one in 24 days
Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Józefa

1 in 544 women in Poland is named Józefa. 41,432 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #210 among female names.

People with the name Józefa 2019 → 2025
41,432 −14,609 since 2019
2020 54,793 −1,248
2021 51,696 −3,097
2022 48,592 −3,104
2023 45,912 −2,680
2024 43,734 −2,178
2025 41,432 −2,302

Józefa's popularity over time

Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.

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<2 newborns with the name Józefa in 2025
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Where parents choose Józefa

Józefa is most popular in Pomeranian, 633% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+375%).

Chosen most
  • Pomeranian
    +633%
    1 in 73,661 babies
  • Silesian
    +375%
    1 in 113,792 babies

Józefa as a middle name

Józefa is a first name for 41,432 women in Poland and a middle name for another 75,437, a 35/65 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 40th, between Marianna (77,344) and Justyna (74,665).

As a first name
41,432
As a middle name
75,437
first name 35% middle name 65%
Middle-name ranking women

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