Iosefa
Iosefa is a Samoan name. It may refer to the following people:Given nameIosefa Enari (1954–2000), New Zealand opera singer Iosefa Enari Memorial Award Joe Tekori, Samoan rugby union playerSurnameJoey Iosefa, American football fullback Masada Iosefa (1988–2021), Samoan rugby league player Telupe Iosefa, Tuvaluan powerlifter Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia, Samoan politician
Meaning & Origin of Iosefa
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Iosefa is a Samoan name. It may refer to the following people:Given nameIosefa Enari (1954–2000), New Zealand opera singer Iosefa Enari Memorial Award Joe Tekori, Samoan rugby union playerSurnameJoey Iosefa, American football fullback Masada Iosefa (1988–2021), Samoan rugby league player Telupe Iosefa, Tuvaluan powerlifter Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia, Samoan politician
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The Story of Iosefa
Iosefa first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1992, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2024: 9 births, good for #8,287 nationwide. About 48% of every Iosefa on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Iosefa last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 89 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Iosefa
Iosefa is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 89 births in the dataset. Iosefa's peak popularity came in 2024 when it ranked #8,287. Use the chart and map above to compare Iosefa's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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