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Efigenia

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Ancient Greek origin

Efigenia has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1924. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1924, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Efigenia, 1980

1 in 689,000

Efigenia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Efigenia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Ancient Greek origin

Ancient Greek

What Efigenia means

Efigenia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Efigenia is used in Cebuano. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Efigenia between 1924 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1924; its best national rank was #5,283 in 1924.

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 Efigenia?

Efigenia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Efigenia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Efigenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Efigenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Efigenia was born before 1924 — so the typical Efigenia is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Efigenia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1924 (5)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,283
1924

Spellings of Efigenia

Efigenia is not the most common spelling — Eugenia is, with 100.0% against Efigenia's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Efigenia around the world

Where Efigenia 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.

  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Efigenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,283
1924
Peak year
1924
5 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Efigenia

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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