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Efraim

#2,579 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ephraim

Efraim has been given to 1,851 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #2,579 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Efraim, 2025

1 in 65,000

Efraim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Efraim: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ephraim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Efraim means

Efraim is a form of Ephraim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Efraim → Ephraim. The family’s meaning is “fruitful”, recorded in English.

Origin, language, and formation

Efraim is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ephraim.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Efraim is pronounced /e.fɾaˈĩ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,851 boys were recorded with the name Efraim between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,885 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,896 in 2020 to #2,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,615 in 2015 to #2,579 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 Efraim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,579
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Efraim 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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Efraim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Efraims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Efraim was born before 2007 — so the typical Efraim is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,825
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (465).

Is Efraim 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
−337
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+317
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+36
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.5%
Peak was 2023 (65)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,885
1972

Spellings of Efraim

Efraim is not the most common spelling — Efrain is, with 60.2% against Efraim's 6.0%.

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.

Where Efraim is used

Across 1910–2025, Efraim was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 28,563 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 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. Efraim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Efraim around the world

Where Efraim 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
    2007–2025
    #1,226
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,170
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Efraim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 317
Best rank ever
#1,885
1972
Peak year
2023
65 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,851
Count in 2025
51

Names similar to Efraim

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

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Sibling names for Efraim

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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