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Josefa

Feminine variation of Joseph, Hebrew

"Jehovah increases"

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Updated Wed Feb 18 2026

Josefa Origin and Meaning

Variation of Josepha

Josefa Rank in US Top 1000
Famous People Named Josefa

# 930 in the US

Josefa Rank in US Top 1000

Popularity of the name Josefa

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Famous People Named Josefa

Josefa de los Dolores Peña y Lillo Barbosa
Dominican nun and writer
Josefa Petra Francisca de Paula de Tudó y Catalán
mistress of Spanish PM Manuel de Godoy; model for Goya
Josefa Johnson
sister of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson
Josefa de Óbidos
Portuguese Baroque painter
(María) Josefa Crescencia Ortiz de Domínguez
Mexican revolutionary
Josefa Madamba Llanes Escoda
Filipina war heroine, feminist and activist
Josefa "Pepa" Bayeu
wife of artist Francisco Goya
Josefa de Godoy di Bassano y Crowe
de Tudó y O'Donovan, 2nd Viscountess of Rocafuerte, Spanish,Italian aristocrat
Josefa Ordóñez
Mexican actress
Francisca Josefa Maria Xaviera
Infanta of Portugal; daughter of Peter II
María Josefa Carmela de Borbón
Infanta of Spain; daughter of Charles III
María Josefa Alonso
Pimentel y Téllez,Girón, Duchess of Osuna, Spanish aristocrat and art patron

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