Meaning not yet researched.
Effie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 82 in 2025. Its best rank was #55 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #55 in 1882; #2,245 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Effie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,245 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #55.
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Effie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 82 girls in 2025. Peak: #55 in 1882 · most girls in one year: 929 (1919).
In 2025, 82 US girls were named Effie, making it the 2,245th most common girls’ name of the year, up 223 places from #2,468 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 73 girls named Effie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #55, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 929, in 1919. For comparison, it was #3,099 in 2015 and #619 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Effie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 406 babies with the name. In all, 44,497 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 7,744 babies named Effie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 735 US girls were named Effie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Effie ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,266 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Efe, Effy and Efia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Efe (371), Effy (83), Efia (19).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Effie in the open dataset we use.
Effie is listed as a nickname for Euphemia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,266 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,516 | — |
| California | 8 | #2,329 | #3,565 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,435 | #2,989 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 2023 | 91 | #2,113 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,006 | — | — |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,511 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,053 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,574 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,778 | — | — |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,322 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,180 | — | — |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,386 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,477 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,410 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,020 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,276 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,468 | — | — |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,470 | — | — |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,348 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,277 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,792 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,749 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,549 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,813 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,618 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,890 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1973 | 57 | #1,610 | 7 | #4,206 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1971 | 91 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1966 | 67 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1965 | 84 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1964 | 76 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1963 | 88 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1962 | 85 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1961 | 98 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1960 | 96 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1959 | 114 | #991 | — | — |
| 1958 | 128 | #907 | — | — |
| 1957 | 115 | #965 | — | — |
| 1956 | 130 | #875 | — | — |
| 1955 | 153 | #778 | — | — |
| 1954 | 145 | #779 | — | — |
| 1953 | 157 | #727 | — | — |
| 1952 | 172 | #679 | — | — |
| 1951 | 184 | #641 | — | — |
| 1950 | 185 | #619 | — | — |
| 1949 | 207 | #578 | — | — |
| 1948 | 203 | #585 | — | — |
| 1947 | 227 | #565 | — | — |
| 1946 | 227 | #522 | — | — |
| 1945 | 222 | #484 | — | — |
| 1944 | 200 | #511 | — | — |
| 1943 | 231 | #487 | — | — |
| 1942 | 270 | #447 | 5 | #3,713 |
| 1941 | 250 | #432 | — | — |
| 1940 | 290 | #399 | — | — |
| 1939 | 288 | #393 | — | — |
| 1938 | 302 | #382 | — | — |
| 1937 | 379 | #317 | 5 | #3,675 |
| 1936 | 324 | #352 | 5 | #3,697 |
| 1935 | 388 | #320 | — | — |
| 1934 | 431 | #299 | — | — |
| 1933 | 406 | #305 | — | — |
| 1932 | 417 | #311 | — | — |
| 1931 | 421 | #312 | — | — |
| 1930 | 488 | #301 | 10 | #2,653 |
| 1929 | 520 | #283 | 5 | #4,130 |
| 1928 | 529 | #284 | — | — |
| 1927 | 601 | #273 | 9 | #2,974 |
| 1926 | 644 | #262 | 8 | #3,212 |
| 1925 | 780 | #235 | — | — |
| 1924 | 765 | #238 | 8 | #3,333 |
| 1923 | 779 | #235 | 11 | #2,664 |
| 1922 | 810 | #227 | 10 | #2,858 |
| 1921 | 848 | #220 | — | — |
| 1920 | 895 | #214 | — | — |
| 1919 | 929 | #201 | 9 | #2,944 |
| 1918 | 919 | #207 | 10 | #2,746 |
| 1917 | 892 | #203 | 10 | #2,605 |
| 1916 | 878 | #201 | 11 | #2,423 |
| 1915 | 844 | #196 | 6 | #3,516 |
| 1914 | 726 | #184 | — | — |
| 1913 | 708 | #164 | 8 | #2,137 |
| 1912 | 666 | #161 | — | — |
| 1911 | 549 | #147 | 7 | #1,427 |
| 1910 | 572 | #143 | — | — |
| 1909 | 538 | #132 | — | — |
| 1908 | 549 | #124 | — | — |
| 1907 | 578 | #115 | — | — |
| 1906 | 578 | #109 | — | — |
| 1905 | 542 | #117 | 7 | #1,023 |
| 1904 | 578 | #105 | — | — |
| 1903 | 552 | #103 | — | — |
| 1902 | 658 | #92 | 6 | #1,044 |
| 1901 | 545 | #97 | 6 | #980 |
| 1900 | 752 | #89 | 13 | #707 |
| 1899 | 597 | #90 | 7 | #879 |
| 1898 | 714 | #83 | — | — |
| 1897 | 698 | #79 | — | — |
| 1896 | 716 | #80 | 8 | #843 |
| 1895 | 708 | #79 | 7 | #906 |
| 1894 | 712 | #74 | 6 | #988 |
| 1893 | 674 | #74 | — | — |
| 1892 | 721 | #72 | 5 | #1,111 |
| 1891 | 704 | #67 | 6 | #875 |
| 1890 | 717 | #66 | — | — |
| 1889 | 711 | #65 | 8 | #736 |
| 1888 | 744 | #65 | 6 | #956 |
| 1887 | 615 | #64 | 5 | #976 |
| 1886 | 672 | #60 | — | — |
| 1885 | 613 | #59 | — | — |
| 1884 | 558 | #62 | — | — |
| 1883 | 507 | #60 | 7 | #745 |
| 1882 | 561 | #55 | — | — |
| 1881 | 463 | #56 | — | — |
| 1880 | 406 | #63 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).