Ephriam
Ephriam was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 966 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ephriam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ephriam?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,199, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1917, the peak
Ephriam peaked in 1917, when 22 boys were given it, #1,546 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,199 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,242 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,273 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,035 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,010 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,273 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,241 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,630 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,150 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,660 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #11,428 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,068 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,132 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,424 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,724 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,579 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,656 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,763 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,809 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,526 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,568 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,119 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,873 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,851 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,566 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,838 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,580 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,726 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,846 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,943 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,622 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,334 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,322 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,538 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,205 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,956 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,972 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,828 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,195 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,842 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,011 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,344 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,030 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,074 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,149 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,559 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,443 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 9 | #947 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,048 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 7 | #962 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 7 | #911 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 9 | #790 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 8 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 11 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,053 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 6 | #959 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 6 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 6 | #879 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 7 | #787 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 18 | #438 | 0.16 |
| 1883 | 9 | #659 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 10 | #618 | 0.09 |
| 1880 | 8 | #700 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ephriam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ephriam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ephriam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ephriam, and how old are they?
An estimated 425 Americans named Ephriam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 22 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 417 people named Ephriam (2 women and girls, 415 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 9,905 babies since 1880, Ephriam is the second most given (9.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 244 babies recorded by SSA was a Ephriam (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ephriam
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 Ephriam and names like it
- Compare Ephriam and EphraimBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEphriam peaked in 1917.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ephriam since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Ephriam.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ephriam alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.