Meaning not yet researched.
Efrain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #469 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #469 in 1981; #1,494 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Efrain in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,494 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #469.
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Efrain: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 boys in 2025. Peak: #469 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 405 (1993).
In 2025, 118 US boys were named Efrain, making it the 1,494th most common boys’ name of the year, down 55 places from #1,439 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 126 boys named Efrain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #469, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 405, in 1993. For comparison, it was #1,060 in 2015 and #937 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Efrain in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1920 with 5 babies. In all, 18,586 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,781 babies named Efrain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,493 US boys were named Efrain; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 193. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Efrain ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #755 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Efren (8,198 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Efran, Efrin and Ephrain 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: Efran (39), Efrin (38), Ephrain (11), Ifrain (10), Efrian (5).
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 Efrain 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #755 | #686 |
| Colorado | 5 | #885 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #956 | #604 |
| California | 21 | #1,019 | #632 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,142 | #1,414 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 118 | #1,494 |
| 2024 | — | — | 126 | #1,439 |
| 2023 | — | — | 139 | #1,359 |
| 2022 | — | — | 144 | #1,309 |
| 2021 | — | — | 149 | #1,273 |
| 2020 | — | — | 147 | #1,256 |
| 2019 | — | — | 143 | #1,297 |
| 2018 | — | — | 164 | #1,170 |
| 2017 | — | — | 193 | #1,042 |
| 2016 | — | — | 170 | #1,139 |
| 2015 | — | — | 188 | #1,060 |
| 2014 | — | — | 218 | #967 |
| 2013 | — | — | 221 | #925 |
| 2012 | — | — | 237 | #884 |
| 2011 | — | — | 229 | #897 |
| 2010 | — | — | 265 | #808 |
| 2009 | — | — | 286 | #789 |
| 2008 | — | — | 294 | #757 |
| 2007 | — | — | 380 | #641 |
| 2006 | — | — | 342 | #665 |
| 2005 | — | — | 366 | #612 |
| 2004 | — | — | 380 | #586 |
| 2003 | — | — | 382 | #577 |
| 2002 | — | — | 372 | #582 |
| 2001 | — | — | 379 | #554 |
| 2000 | — | — | 382 | #553 |
| 1999 | — | — | 392 | #529 |
| 1998 | — | — | 371 | #541 |
| 1997 | — | — | 366 | #542 |
| 1996 | — | — | 380 | #524 |
| 1995 | — | — | 374 | #525 |
| 1994 | — | — | 383 | #517 |
| 1993 | — | — | 405 | #508 |
| 1992 | — | — | 377 | #521 |
| 1991 | — | — | 391 | #500 |
| 1990 | — | — | 342 | #537 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,242 | 352 | #510 |
| 1988 | — | — | 285 | #545 |
| 1987 | — | — | 284 | #541 |
| 1986 | — | — | 293 | #519 |
| 1985 | — | — | 247 | #563 |
| 1984 | — | — | 253 | #546 |
| 1983 | — | — | 254 | #523 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,480 | 223 | #575 |
| 1981 | — | — | 313 | #469 |
| 1980 | — | — | 282 | #505 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,314 | 265 | #518 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,196 | 253 | #516 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,050 | 253 | #523 |
| 1976 | — | — | 244 | #513 |
| 1975 | — | — | 258 | #497 |
| 1974 | — | — | 243 | #508 |
| 1973 | — | — | 233 | #509 |
| 1972 | — | — | 213 | #544 |
| 1971 | — | — | 214 | #550 |
| 1970 | — | — | 192 | #584 |
| 1969 | — | — | 195 | #559 |
| 1968 | — | — | 167 | #590 |
| 1967 | — | — | 175 | #569 |
| 1966 | — | — | 166 | #584 |
| 1965 | — | — | 158 | #609 |
| 1964 | — | — | 146 | #645 |
| 1963 | — | — | 148 | #648 |
| 1962 | — | — | 140 | #654 |
| 1961 | — | — | 152 | #636 |
| 1960 | — | — | 131 | #687 |
| 1959 | — | — | 123 | #686 |
| 1958 | — | — | 101 | #736 |
| 1957 | — | — | 132 | #661 |
| 1956 | — | — | 115 | #690 |
| 1955 | — | — | 112 | #693 |
| 1954 | — | — | 107 | #700 |
| 1953 | — | — | 113 | #672 |
| 1952 | — | — | 78 | #796 |
| 1951 | — | — | 75 | #814 |
| 1950 | — | — | 54 | #937 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,053 |
| 1948 | — | — | 45 | #1,048 |
| 1947 | — | — | 42 | #1,125 |
| 1946 | — | — | 30 | #1,281 |
| 1945 | — | — | 35 | #1,107 |
| 1944 | — | — | 33 | #1,160 |
| 1943 | — | — | 24 | #1,439 |
| 1942 | — | — | 32 | #1,232 |
| 1941 | — | — | 27 | #1,280 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,646 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #1,987 |
| 1938 | — | — | 16 | #1,764 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,494 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,826 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,780 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,958 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,125 |
| 1932 | — | — | 27 | #1,333 |
| 1931 | — | — | 22 | #1,505 |
| 1930 | — | — | 24 | #1,505 |
| 1929 | — | — | 26 | #1,419 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,077 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,569 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,478 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,752 |
| 1924 | — | — | 17 | #1,981 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,330 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,485 |
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).