Efren
Efren was given to 65 boys in 2025, #2,190 among boys’ names; 8,198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,330 Americans named Efren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 19 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Efren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Efren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Efren is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efrén.
/ˈɛfɹɛn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Efren?
#2,190 among boys’ names, 2025
Efren fell from #1,618 in 2015 to #2,190 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.7 to 38.1 per million.
201 babies in 2007, the peak
Efren peaked in 2007, when 201 boys were given it, #977 among boys’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,190 | 38.1 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,608 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 83 | #1,900 | 48.5 |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,153 | 38.9 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,065 | 40.6 |
| 2020 | 78 | #1,899 | 45.2 |
| 2019 | 86 | #1,795 | 47.9 |
| 2018 | 83 | #1,825 | 45.7 |
| 2017 | 83 | #1,812 | 44.8 |
| 2016 | 93 | #1,687 | 49.0 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 99 | #1,618 | 51.7 |
| 2014 | 99 | #1,591 | 51.5 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,450 | 60.3 |
| 2012 | 91 | #1,678 | 48.0 |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,387 | 63.2 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,352 | 65.7 |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,196 | 76.1 |
| 2008 | 142 | #1,228 | 69.6 |
| 2007 | 201 | #977 | 96.8 |
| 2006 | 190 | #976 | 92.4 |
| 2005 | 178 | #975 | 89.1 |
| 2004 | 172 | #970 | 86.7 |
| 2003 | 183 | #909 | 92.6 |
| 2002 | 183 | #888 | 94.3 |
| 2001 | 193 | #839 | 99.3 |
| 2000 | 180 | #873 | 91.6 |
| 1999 | 186 | #817 | 96.9 |
| 1998 | 180 | #823 | 94.2 |
| 1997 | 160 | #870 | 84.9 |
| 1996 | 184 | #789 | 97.1 |
| 1995 | 168 | #826 | 88.2 |
| 1994 | 163 | #833 | 84.4 |
| 1993 | 156 | #848 | 79.5 |
| 1992 | 164 | #819 | 82.1 |
| 1991 | 173 | #778 | 85.6 |
| 1990 | 174 | #765 | 84.7 |
| 1989 | 124 | #910 | 62.0 |
| 1988 | 118 | #878 | 61.6 |
| 1987 | 120 | #852 | 64.3 |
| 1986 | 122 | #824 | 66.2 |
| 1985 | 103 | #893 | 55.7 |
| 1984 | 97 | #885 | 53.7 |
| 1983 | 111 | #829 | 61.9 |
| 1982 | 113 | #835 | 62.3 |
| 1981 | 114 | #823 | 63.6 |
| 1980 | 113 | #828 | 63.3 |
| 1979 | 109 | #834 | 63.3 |
| 1978 | 112 | #804 | 68.2 |
| 1977 | 81 | #949 | 49.3 |
| 1976 | 95 | #855 | 60.5 |
| 1975 | 88 | #883 | 56.4 |
| 1974 | 86 | #862 | 54.7 |
| 1973 | 78 | #905 | 50.0 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,025 | 38.2 |
| 1971 | 71 | #968 | 40.1 |
| 1970 | 72 | #942 | 38.7 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,004 | 33.0 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,059 | 28.2 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,184 | 22.9 |
| 1966 | 61 | #934 | 34.2 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,282 | 19.4 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,149 | 22.6 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,141 | 22.6 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,125 | 22.7 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,124 | 23.1 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,180 | 20.6 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,173 | 20.6 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,323 | 16.0 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,460 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,318 | 16.1 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,513 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,365 | 15.2 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,412 | 14.7 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,383 | 15.4 |
| 1951 | 23 | #1,564 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,479 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,258 | 18.6 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,264 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,939 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,483 | 14.2 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,645 | 12.6 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,588 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,656 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,696 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,239 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,533 | 17.3 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,505 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,227 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,118 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,663 | 16.4 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,725 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,443 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,090 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,266 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,130 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,485 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,393 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,618 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,326 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,227 | 12.6 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,030 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,333 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,146 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,974 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,992 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,585 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,507 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,346 | 4.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,516 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Efren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Efren has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Efren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Efren, and how old are they?
7,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 8,198 Americans ever recorded as Efren. The median Efren alive today is 30 years old; half are between 19 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 14,639 people named Efren (57 women and girls, 14,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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 | 58 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 437 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,080 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Efren born?
The states with the most babies named Efren are California, Texas and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,048 | 3.2× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,509 | 2.7× |
| Arizona | 8 | #739 | 2.4× |
Where Efren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Efren is most over-represented in California: since 1915 it was given 3.2 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 Efren 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, Efren is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 183 babies (36%), 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 Efren
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 Efren and names like it
- Compare Efren and EfrainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sEfren peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Efren since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Efren: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Efren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Efren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.