Josefina
Barely 60 women in Poland go by it, and new babies almost never get it: three girls since 2000, all in one year. Most Poles have never met one. A Latin name meaning "God will add", it's the outside spelling of the Polish Józefina.
Josefina Pronunciation
Josefina is pronounced yo-se-FEE-nah (/jɔsɛˈfina/).
What Josefina means
Where Josefina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Josefina reaches Polish through Latin, which carried the older Hebrew Yosef into the calendars and registers of Europe. Its short meaning is "god will add," a phrase of increase, of one more child given. In Spain and across the Spanish-speaking world the form Josefina became common enough to feel native, and that Spanish colouring is part of how Polish ears hear it today.
Polish already had its own line from the same root. The masculine Józef stands behind it, and the fuller Józefina sits beside Josefina as the local variant. Józefa serves as the shorter, plainer form.
A girl named Josefina in Poland meets her name first on paper. It appears on the class register, on a form at the urząd, spelled sometimes with the Polish J and sometimes kept in the Spanish way. The two spellings mark two routes to one origin. Both still mean "god will add," the sense of increase held from Yosef down to Józefina and Józefa.
How many people are named Josefina
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Josefina. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4762 among female names.
Josefina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Josefina as a middle name
Josefina is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 63, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 860th, between Flawia (63) and Rocio (63).
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#858 Xymena64
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#859 Flawia63
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#860 Josefina63
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#861 Rocio63
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#862 Antoinette62