Yefim
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yefim has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2015. 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 2015, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Yefim, 2018
1 in 703,000
Yefim 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yefim?
Yefim had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yefim sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yefim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yefims were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yefim was born before 2017 — so the typical Yefim is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 16
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).
Is Yefim 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 2015 (6)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Yefim
Yefim is not the most common spelling — Denim is, with 53.7% against Yefim's 0.32%.
Yefim by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yefim
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yefim
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.