Efraim
Efraim was given to 51 boys in 2025, #2,579 among boys’ names; 1,851 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Efraim and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Efraim by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Efraim mean?
Wiktionary, Portuguese section
Efraim is “a male given name, equivalent to English Ephraim”
/e.fɾaˈĩ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Portuguese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Efraim?
#2,579 among boys’ names, 2025
Efraim rose from #2,615 in 2015 to #2,579 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.5 to 29.9 per million.
65 babies in 2023, the peak
Efraim peaked in 2023, when 65 boys were given it, #2,195 among boys’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #2,579 | 29.9 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,242 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,195 | 38.0 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,248 | 36.7 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,385 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,896 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 44 | #2,820 | 24.5 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,680 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,426 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,017 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,615 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 36 | #3,103 | 18.7 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,433 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,730 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,516 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,293 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,298 | 28.7 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,963 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,148 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,245 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,843 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,752 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,741 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #3,584 | 12.4 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,438 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,166 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,300 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,877 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,633 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,287 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,459 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,968 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,872 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,369 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,696 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,883 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,864 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,755 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,586 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,621 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 22 | #2,373 | 11.9 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,994 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,700 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,011 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,475 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,863 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,415 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,230 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,930 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,446 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,465 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,798 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 21 | #1,999 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,885 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,020 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 17 | #2,226 | 9.1 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,163 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,305 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,063 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,258 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,850 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,912 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,727 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,905 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,760 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,349 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,367 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,105 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,413 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,292 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,281 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,017 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,318 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,470 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,719 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,841 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,569 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,627 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,834 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,928 | 4.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,950 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Efraim a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Efraim has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Efraim: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Efraim, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,851 Americans ever recorded as Efraim. The median Efraim alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,668 people named Efraim (3 women and girls, 1,665 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,436 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 95 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 188 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 247 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 552 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 653 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Efraim born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 23 | #647 | 8.1× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #418 | 4.7× |
Where Efraim is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Efraim is most over-represented in New York: since 1920 it was given 8.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Efraim with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,728 babies since 1880, Efraim is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 298 babies (17%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Efraim
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Efraim and names like it
- Compare Efraim and EphraimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sEfraim peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Efraim since 1910.
- Portuguese namesWiktionary’s origin for Efraim: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Efraim.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Efraim alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.