Efrem
Efrem was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,033 among boys’ names; 1,584 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Efrem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 36 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Efrem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Efrem mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Efrem is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “Ephraim” (Efráyim,) and “fruitful” (literally).
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”).
/ˈɛ.frem/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Efrem?
#11,033 among boys’ names, 2025
Efrem fell from #8,971 in 2015 to #11,033 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 3.5 per million.
85 babies in 1959, the peak
Efrem peaked in 1959, when 85 boys were given it, #824 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,033 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,384 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,744 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,011 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,110 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,339 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,971 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,319 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,169 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,728 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #8,975 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,021 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,911 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,155 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,130 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,596 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,263 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,234 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,874 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,824 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,772 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,106 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,834 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,031 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,236 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,966 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,876 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,356 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,292 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,794 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,856 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,884 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,093 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,394 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,286 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,711 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,312 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,462 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,603 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,624 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,937 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,996 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,807 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,593 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,486 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,013 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,720 | 18.6 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,669 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,596 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,295 | 25.9 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,187 | 27.1 |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,066 | 31.8 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,054 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 68 | #875 | 39.1 |
| 1967 | 79 | #814 | 45.3 |
| 1966 | 77 | #831 | 43.2 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,035 | 27.4 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,131 | 23.1 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,182 | 21.2 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,038 | 26.1 |
| 1961 | 84 | #840 | 39.5 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,022 | 26.3 |
| 1959 | 85 | #824 | 39.8 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,106 | 3.8 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,981 | 2.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,412 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,662 | 3.1 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,388 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Efrem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Efrem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Efrem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Efrem, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,584 Americans ever recorded as Efrem. The median Efrem alive today is 54 years old; half are between 36 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 1,468 people named Efrem (6 women and girls, 1,462 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,405 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 296 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 569 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 181 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 73 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,685 babies since 1880, Efrem is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 70 babies (8.6%), the third most given that year.
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 Efrem
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 Efrem and names like it
- Compare Efrem and EfraimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sEfrem peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Efrem since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Efrem: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Efrem.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Efrem alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with EMost given first.