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Efrem

#11,033 in 2025Boys' name

Fruitful

Efrem has been given to 1,584 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #11,033 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Efrem, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Efrem: meaning, origin, and history

Fruitful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Efrem means

Efrem means “fruitful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Efrem is used in Italian.

Efrem comes through Biblical Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Efrem is pronounced /ˈɛ.frem/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,584 boys were recorded with the name Efrem between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1959; its best national rank was #814 in 1967.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,971 in 2015 to #11,033 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 Efrem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,033
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Efrem 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Efrem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Efrems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Efrem was born before 1971 — so the typical Efrem is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,568
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Choose a decade

1960s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (612).

Is Efrem 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
−3,649
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,062
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.1%
Peak was 1959 (85)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#814
1967

Spellings of Efrem

Efrem is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 94.3% against Efrem's 0.43%.

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 Efrem is used

Across 1910–2025, Efrem was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 215,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Efrem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Efrem around the world

Where Efrem 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
    2015–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2021
    #5,640
    in 2021

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

Efrem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,033
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#814
1967
Peak year
1959
85 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,584
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Efrem

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

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Sibling names for Efrem

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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