Josefine

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Josefine: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Josefine: Recorded since 1975, its highest recorded position is #24, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
51years from first to last
#24highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for
2names it appears alongside

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
1999	#3225
2003	#4373
2006	#4157
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#5556
2012	#5876
2016	#4096
2017	#4763
2020	#5493
2022	#5669
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 45 of the 51 years from 1975 to 2025.

In 2023: #42 among girls in Norway, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1975–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #606 among girls in Norway in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1975–2025
Highest recorded position: #24 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1975–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #24 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Josefine appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 45 years beginning in 1975, and has registered 3,022 births with the name.

Josefine across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Josefine's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#606 (1975)	#24 (2025)	#24 (2025)	45 of 51	3,022 (1975–2025)	187 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3225 (1999)	#5687 (2023)	13 of 26	44 (1998–2023)	5 (2016)

Josefine by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Josefine in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	60	8 of 10	8
1990s	399	10 of 10	40
2000s	686	10 of 10	69
2010s	1,051	10 of 10	105
2020sbusiest	822	6 of 10	137

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 137 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 46, from 130 to 176.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Josefine appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #24 in Norway in 2025.

Josefine's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3225	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#24	187	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#26	176	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#42	130	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#57	112	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#60	100	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#49	117	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#44	137	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#57	107	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#47	121	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#61	98	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#65	99	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#82	79	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#60	113	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#62	109	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#70	93	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#73	95	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#76	89	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#83	87	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#75	84	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#82	83	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#86	77	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#108	58	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#123	51	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#111	57	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#108	61	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#154	39	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#117	58	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#107	68	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#150	44	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#150	45	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#157	42	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#169	36	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#168	37	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#199	29	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#277	18	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#250	22	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#317	15	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#528	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#613	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#474	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#663	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#508	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#392	10	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#642	4	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#606	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1975 and 2025, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #24, first reached in 2025.

It held a top-100 place in 21 years, 21 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 187 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jose · #180, 79y
Josef · #189, 70y
Joselyn · #2112, 19y
Joseph · #7, 75y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ronja · #58, 42y
Ebba · #67, 43y
Erna · #74, 43y
Mariusz · #76, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Rhys · #25, 46y
Shea · #25, 32y
Hayden · #26, 52y
Imogen · #26, 34y

Comparisons involving Josefine

Existing comparison pages where Josefine and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Josefine in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Emily vs Josefine
Emily and Josefine changed places 17 times in Norway · Girls between 1982 and 2025, ending at #71 and #24.
Emily · Josefine · 44 shared years, 1982–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Amanda vs Josefine
In Norway · Girls, Josefine moved into the top 50 at #26 in 2024 as Amanda fell out of it to #52, having been #35 the year before.
Amanda · Josefine · 44 shared years, 1982–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2024 Norway ranking

Josefine was ranked #24 in Norway · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Josefine and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Josefine without appearing here.

Josefine moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5556 and #4564 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Jeanette Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5876 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Helene Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5876 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #5765.
Susan Compare
In 1988 they stood at #528 and #463 in Norway · Girls; by 1989 that had become #317 and #693.

Moved ahead of Josefine

Eabha Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4157 and #5061 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #2326.
Frida Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3225 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #2727.
Ellinor Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3225 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #3594.
Olivia Compare
In 2007 they stood at #75 and #81 in Norway · Girls; by 2008 that had become #83 and #61.

Moved the opposite way to Josefine

Anita Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 while Anita went from #9 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 while Anne went from #2 to #159.
Aud Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 while Aud went from #169 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 while Bjørg went from #142 to #369.

Moved the same way as Josefine

Ada Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 and Ada from #535 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 and Alma from #417 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 and Annie from #420 to #214.
Astrid Compare
Between 1975 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Josefine went from #606 to #24 and Astrid from #79 to #9.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1975 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #24 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Josefine

Josefine at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Josefine across 2 official records

Josefine by decade in Norway · Girls

Josefine appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Comparisons involving Josefine

Longest shared records

Names published alongside Josefine

Josefine and the names beside it

Josefine moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Josefine

Moved the opposite way to Josefine

Moved the same way as Josefine

Josefine at a glance

Josefine across 2 official records

Josefine by decade in Norway · Girls

Josefine appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Comparisons involving Josefine

Longest shared records

Names published alongside Josefine

Josefine and the names beside it

Josefine moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Josefine

Moved the opposite way to Josefine

Moved the same way as Josefine