Psychology 101
INFJ Female: How Rare Are INFJ Women?
The CQ Team · 4 min read · Oct 16, 2026
INFJ is more common in women than men: 1.6% vs 1.3% in the older figures and 4.2% vs 1.5% in 2018. It still isn't the rarest type for women.
INFJ is more common among women than men in every US sample from the test's publisher: 4.2% of women against 1.5% of men in 2018, and 1.6% against 1.3% in the older figures. That makes INFJ women about 1 in 24.
The two samples used different versions of the questionnaire and recruited people differently, so the rise from 1.6% to 4.2% doesn't mean more women became INFJs. What holds in both is the direction: the type is more common among women, and the gap is wider in the newer data.
| Women, 2018 | 4.2% |
| Men, 2018 | 1.5% |
| Women, older | 1.6% |
| Men, older | 1.3% |
No. In both samples the rarest types among women combine Intuition with Thinking. Among women in 2018, INFJ ranks seventh rarest of the 16 types.
Rarest for women, 2018
| ENTJ | 1.4% |
| ENTP | 1.8% |
| INTJ | 2.2% |
| INFJ | 4.2% |
Rarest for women, older figures
| INTJ | 0.8% |
| ENTJ | 0.9% |
| INFJ | 1.6% |
Online tests draw a different crowd. On 16Personalities, a separate test with its own model, INFJ makes up 7.6% of all US results. The site itself says Introverted, Intuitive and Feeling people are probably over-represented among the people who choose to take it.
Type theory describes the same preferences for both: a leading intuition about people and patterns, warmth towards others, and a liking for plans. The one difference the data shows is how many of you there are. Two habits help any INFJ who becomes the person others lean on.
When you've mediated a conflict or spotted a problem early, say so plainly. Others may not notice it as work.
Time alone after heavy conversations is maintenance. It's fine to protect it.
4.2% in the Myers-Briggs Company's 2018 US sample, about 1 in 24 women. In the older figures it was 1.6%.
Rarer in men. INFJ was 1.3% of men in the older figures and 1.5% in 2018, against 1.6% and 4.2% of women.
ISFJ, at 14.9% of women in the 2018 US sample, just ahead of ISTJ at 14.5%.
Most celebrity type lists are guesses made by fans from interviews, not results from a test the person took, so we don't publish one.
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