Ephron
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ephron has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 1996, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Ephron, 2022
1 in 677,000
Ephron over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ephron?
Ephron had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 349,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ephron sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ephron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ephrons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ephron was born before 1996 — so the typical Ephron is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Ephron 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (5)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Ephron
Ephron is not the most common spelling — Eron is, with 29.2% against Ephron's 0.21%.
Ephron around the world
Where Ephron 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 & Wales2011–2011#4,647in 2011
- South Australia1979–1979#486in 1979
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.
Ephron by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ephron
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ephron
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.