Efrain
Efrain was given to 118 boys in 2025, #1,494 among boys’ names; 18,586 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,900 Americans named Efrain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Efrain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Efrain mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Efrain is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efraín. Doublet of Ephraim.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Efrain?
#1,494 among boys’ names, 2025
Efrain fell from #1,060 in 2015 to #1,494 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 98.1 to 69.1 per million.
405 babies in 1993, the peak
Efrain peaked in 1993, when 405 boys were given it, #508 among boys’ names. The 118 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,494 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,359 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 144 | #1,309 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,273 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,256 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 143 | #1,297 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,170 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 193 | #1,042 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,139 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 188 | #1,060 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 218 | #967 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 221 | #925 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 237 | #884 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 229 | #897 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 265 | #808 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 286 | #789 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 294 | #757 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 380 | #641 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 342 | #665 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 366 | #612 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 380 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 2003 | 382 | #577 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 372 | #582 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 379 | #554 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 382 | #553 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 392 | #529 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 371 | #541 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 366 | #542 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 380 | #524 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 374 | #525 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 383 | #517 | 0.20 |
| 1993 | 405 | #508 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 377 | #521 | 0.19 |
| 1991 | 391 | #500 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 342 | #536 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 352 | #509 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 285 | #545 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 284 | #541 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 293 | #519 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 247 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1984 | 253 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 254 | #523 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 223 | #575 | 0.12 |
| 1981 | 313 | #469 | 0.17 |
| 1980 | 282 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 265 | #518 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 253 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 253 | #523 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 244 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 258 | #497 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 243 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 233 | #509 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 213 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 214 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 192 | #584 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 195 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 167 | #590 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 175 | #569 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 166 | #584 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 158 | #609 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 146 | #645 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 148 | #648 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 140 | #654 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 152 | #635 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 131 | #686 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 123 | #685 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 101 | #735 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 132 | #660 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 115 | #689 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 112 | #692 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 107 | #699 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 113 | #671 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 78 | #795 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 75 | #813 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 54 | #936 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,052 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,047 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,124 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,280 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,106 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,160 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,438 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,232 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,280 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,764 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,826 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,958 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,419 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,328 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,483 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Efrain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Efrain has been given almost only to boys: 29 girls in 104 years of records.
Girls and boys named Efrain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Efrain, and how old are they?
16,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 18,586 Americans ever recorded as Efrain. The median Efrain alive today is 32 years old; half are between 21 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 32,016 people named Efrain (79 women and girls, 31,937 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,532 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times 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 | 84 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,320 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,920 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,100 |
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 Efrain born?
The states with the most babies named Efrain are Texas, California and Florida, with 87% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 36 | #755 | 2.6× |
| California | 21 | #1,019 | 2.4× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,142 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 5 | #956 | 1.6× |
| Colorado | 5 | #885 | 0.5× |
Where Efrain is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Efrain is most over-represented in Texas: since 1920 it was given 2.6 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 Efrain 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 26,784 babies since 1880, Efrain is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 183 babies (64%), again the 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 Efrain
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 Efrain and names like it
- Compare Efrain and EfrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sEfrain peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Efrain since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Efrain: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Efrain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Efrain alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.