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Efe

#6,555 in 2025Boys' name

Brave person; elder brother

Efe has been given to 371 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #6,555 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Efe, 2025

1 in 255,000

Efe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Efe: meaning, origin, and history

Brave person; elder brother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Efe means

Efe means “brave person; elder brother”, associated with efe.

Origin, language, and formation

Efe is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Efe is pronounced /eˈfe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 371 boys were recorded with the name Efe between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2012; its best national rank was #4,287 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,664 in 2020 to #6,555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,060 in 2015 to #6,555 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Efe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,555
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Efe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Efe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Efes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Efe was born before 2012 — so the typical Efe is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
371
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (155).

Is Efe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−832
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,109
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,505
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.5%
Peak was 2012 (23)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,287
2012

Where Efe is used

Across 1910–2025, Efe was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 444,128 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Efe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Efe around the world

Where Efe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,968
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2019
    #2,293
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Efe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,109
Best rank ever
#4,287
2012
Peak year
2012
23 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
371
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Efe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Efe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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