Meaning not yet researched.
Efrem: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #814 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #814 in 1967; #11,037 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Efrem in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,037 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #814.
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Efrem: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #814 in 1967 · most boys in one year: 85 (1959).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Efrem, making it the 11,037th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,648 places from #7,389 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 11 boys named Efrem in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #814, reached in 1967. The most boys given the name in a single year was 85, in 1959. For comparison, it was #8,976 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Efrem in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 5 babies. In all, 1,584 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 612 babies named Efrem.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 46 US boys were named Efrem; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ephraim (8,236 babies since 1880) and Efraim (1,851 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Effrem 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: Effrem (24).
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 Efrem in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,037 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,389 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,749 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,016 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,115 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,343 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #8,976 |
| 2014 | — | — | 9 | #8,325 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,174 |
| 2012 | — | — | 12 | #6,734 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,028 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,916 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,160 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,136 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,600 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,270 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,240 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,879 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,831 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,779 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,114 |
| 1999 | — | — | 14 | #4,840 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,038 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,242 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,973 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,882 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,362 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,298 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,801 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,863 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,890 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,099 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,399 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,290 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,714 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,313 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,463 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,604 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,625 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,939 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #2,997 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,808 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,594 |
| 1977 | — | — | 18 | #2,487 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #2,014 |
| 1975 | — | — | 29 | #1,721 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,669 |
| 1973 | — | — | 30 | #1,596 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,295 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,187 |
| 1970 | — | — | 59 | #1,066 |
| 1969 | — | — | 54 | #1,054 |
| 1968 | — | — | 68 | #875 |
| 1967 | — | — | 79 | #814 |
| 1966 | — | — | 77 | #831 |
| 1965 | — | — | 51 | #1,035 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,132 |
| 1963 | — | — | 43 | #1,183 |
| 1962 | — | — | 54 | #1,039 |
| 1961 | — | — | 84 | #841 |
| 1960 | — | — | 56 | #1,023 |
| 1959 | — | — | 85 | #825 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,107 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,414 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,663 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,390 |
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).