Meaning not yet researched.
Efraim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,885 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,885 in 1972; #2,579 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Efraim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,579 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,885.
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Efraim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,885 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 65 (2023).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Efraim, making it the 2,579th most common boys’ name of the year, down 337 places from #2,242 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 64 boys named Efraim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,885, reached in 1972. The most boys given the name in a single year was 65, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,616 in 2015 and #2,842 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Efraim in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 6 babies. In all, 1,851 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 465 babies named Efraim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 524 US boys were named Efraim; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Efraim ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #418 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ephraim (8,236 babies since 1880) and Efrem (1,584 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Efrayim and Efram 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Efrayim (57), Efram (41).
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 Efraim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 19 | #418 | #441 |
| New York | 23 | #647 | #580 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 51 | #2,579 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,242 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,196 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,249 |
| 2021 | — | — | 57 | #2,386 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,897 |
| 2019 | — | — | 44 | #2,821 |
| 2018 | — | — | 46 | #2,681 |
| 2017 | — | — | 53 | #2,427 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,018 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,105 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,434 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,731 |
| 2011 | — | — | 49 | #2,517 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,294 |
| 2009 | — | — | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,964 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,150 |
| 2006 | — | — | 33 | #3,247 |
| 2005 | — | — | 24 | #3,847 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,756 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,745 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,589 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,443 |
| 2000 | — | — | 27 | #3,172 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,304 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,880 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,638 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,294 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,465 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,974 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,878 |
| 1992 | — | — | 19 | #3,375 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,703 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,889 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,870 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,760 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,591 |
| 1986 | — | — | 20 | #2,624 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,374 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #2,995 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,701 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,012 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,477 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,864 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,416 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,230 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,932 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,447 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,467 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,800 |
| 1973 | — | — | 21 | #2,000 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,885 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #3,022 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,227 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,164 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,306 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,064 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,259 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,851 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,913 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,906 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,761 |
| 1960 | — | — | 13 | #2,350 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,368 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,106 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,414 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,293 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,282 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,018 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,319 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,472 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,720 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,842 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,571 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,628 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,836 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,930 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,952 |
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).