Entry № 5000 · Other origin

Josefa Josefa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hoh-SEH-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Spanish Joseph + Saint Josephine Bakhita"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "spanish joseph + saint josephine bakhita".

Josefa is a girls' name meaning spanish joseph + saint josephine bakhita.

Spanish Joseph + Saint Josephine Bakhita.

The name in its native script.

Josefa
Transliteration
Josefa
Pronunciation
/ hoʊˈsɛ.fə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Josefa stands.

Josefa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Josefas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian Catholic saint 1869-1947 + former slave + Canossian Sister + canonized 2000 + patron saint of Sudan + victims of slavery + human trafficking
Catholic hagiography

Names connected to Josefa.

The number behind Josefa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Josefa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.