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Efren

#2,190 in 2025Boys' name

From Spanish Efrén; literal meaning unconfirmed

Efren has been given to 8,198 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,190 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 201 recorded.

Babies named Efren, 2025

1 in 51,000

Efren over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Efren: meaning, origin, and history

From Spanish Efrén; literal meaning unconfirmed

Spanish

What Efren means

Efren is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Efren is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Efren comes through Spanish Efrén.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Efren is pronounced /ˈɛfɹɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,198 boys were recorded with the name Efren between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 201 in 2007; its best national rank was #765 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,899 in 2020 to #2,190 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,618 in 2015 to #2,190 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 Efren?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,190
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Efren 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Efren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Efrens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Efren was born before 1994 — so the typical Efren is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,661
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (1,773).

Is Efren 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
+418
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−291
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−572
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.3%
Peak was 2007 (201)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1990

Spellings of Efren

Efren is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 65.0% against Efren's 1.5%.

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 Efren is used

Across 1910–2025, Efren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 15,391 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 5,556
  2. 2Arizona1 in 6,250
  3. 3Texas1 in 7,143
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 12,500
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 33,333
  7. 7Nevada1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

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. Efren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Efren around the world

Where Efren 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
    2007–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–1983
    #443
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Efren by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,190
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 291
Best rank ever
#765
1990
Peak year
2007
201 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,198
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Efren

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

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Names with a curve like Efren

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Efren, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Efren

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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