Meaning not yet researched.
Efren: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #769 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #769 in 1990; #2,190 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Efren in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,190 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #769.
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Efren: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 boys in 2025. Peak: #769 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 201 (2007).
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Efren, making it the 2,190th most common boys’ name of the year, up 418 places from #2,608 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 51 boys named Efren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #769, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 201, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,618 in 2015 and #1,480 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Efren in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 8,198 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,773 babies named Efren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 761 US boys were named Efren; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Efren ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #739 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Efrain (18,586 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Effren 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: Effren (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 Efren 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 8 | #739 | #810 |
| California | 20 | #1,048 | #970 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,509 | #907 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 65 | #2,190 |
| 2024 | — | — | 51 | #2,608 |
| 2023 | — | — | 83 | #1,900 |
| 2022 | — | — | 68 | #2,154 |
| 2021 | — | — | 71 | #2,066 |
| 2020 | — | — | 78 | #1,899 |
| 2019 | — | — | 86 | #1,795 |
| 2018 | — | — | 83 | #1,826 |
| 2017 | — | — | 83 | #1,812 |
| 2016 | — | — | 93 | #1,687 |
| 2015 | — | — | 99 | #1,618 |
| 2014 | — | — | 99 | #1,591 |
| 2013 | — | — | 114 | #1,450 |
| 2012 | — | — | 91 | #1,679 |
| 2011 | — | — | 120 | #1,387 |
| 2010 | — | — | 126 | #1,352 |
| 2009 | — | — | 151 | #1,196 |
| 2008 | — | — | 142 | #1,228 |
| 2007 | — | — | 201 | #977 |
| 2006 | — | — | 190 | #976 |
| 2005 | — | — | 178 | #976 |
| 2004 | — | — | 172 | #971 |
| 2003 | — | — | 183 | #910 |
| 2002 | — | — | 183 | #889 |
| 2001 | — | — | 193 | #840 |
| 2000 | — | — | 180 | #875 |
| 1999 | — | — | 186 | #819 |
| 1998 | — | — | 180 | #824 |
| 1997 | — | — | 160 | #872 |
| 1996 | — | — | 184 | #791 |
| 1995 | — | — | 168 | #829 |
| 1994 | — | — | 163 | #835 |
| 1993 | — | — | 156 | #850 |
| 1992 | — | — | 164 | #821 |
| 1991 | — | — | 173 | #782 |
| 1990 | — | — | 174 | #769 |
| 1989 | — | — | 124 | #913 |
| 1988 | — | — | 118 | #879 |
| 1987 | — | — | 120 | #853 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #824 |
| 1985 | — | — | 103 | #893 |
| 1984 | — | — | 97 | #885 |
| 1983 | — | — | 111 | #829 |
| 1982 | — | — | 113 | #835 |
| 1981 | — | — | 114 | #823 |
| 1980 | — | — | 113 | #828 |
| 1979 | — | — | 109 | #834 |
| 1978 | — | — | 112 | #804 |
| 1977 | — | — | 81 | #949 |
| 1976 | — | — | 95 | #855 |
| 1975 | — | — | 88 | #883 |
| 1974 | — | — | 86 | #862 |
| 1973 | — | — | 78 | #905 |
| 1972 | — | — | 62 | #1,025 |
| 1971 | — | — | 71 | #968 |
| 1970 | — | — | 72 | #942 |
| 1969 | — | — | 59 | #1,004 |
| 1968 | — | — | 49 | #1,059 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,185 |
| 1966 | — | — | 61 | #934 |
| 1965 | — | — | 36 | #1,282 |
| 1964 | — | — | 45 | #1,150 |
| 1963 | — | — | 46 | #1,142 |
| 1962 | — | — | 47 | #1,126 |
| 1961 | — | — | 49 | #1,125 |
| 1960 | — | — | 44 | #1,181 |
| 1959 | — | — | 44 | #1,174 |
| 1958 | — | — | 34 | #1,324 |
| 1957 | — | — | 29 | #1,461 |
| 1956 | — | — | 34 | #1,319 |
| 1955 | — | — | 26 | #1,514 |
| 1954 | — | — | 31 | #1,366 |
| 1953 | — | — | 29 | #1,413 |
| 1952 | — | — | 30 | #1,384 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,565 |
| 1950 | — | — | 25 | #1,480 |
| 1949 | — | — | 33 | #1,259 |
| 1948 | — | — | 33 | #1,265 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,940 |
| 1946 | — | — | 23 | #1,484 |
| 1945 | — | — | 17 | #1,646 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,589 |
| 1943 | — | — | 19 | #1,657 |
| 1942 | — | — | 18 | #1,696 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,239 |
| 1940 | — | — | 20 | #1,533 |
| 1939 | — | — | 20 | #1,505 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,227 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,118 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,663 |
| 1935 | — | — | 17 | #1,725 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,443 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,091 |
| 1932 | — | — | 29 | #1,266 |
| 1931 | — | — | 13 | #2,130 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,487 |
| 1929 | — | — | 27 | #1,393 |
| 1928 | — | — | 22 | #1,618 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,326 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,227 |
| 1925 | — | — | 16 | #2,031 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,334 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,147 |
| 1922 | — | — | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,994 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,586 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,508 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,347 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,517 |
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).