Euphemia
Euphemia was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,185 among girls’ names; 771 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Euphemia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Euphemia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Euphemia is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “good” (εὐ-) and “repute” (φήμη).
Name of an early Christian martyr, from Ancient Greek Εὐφημία (Euphēmía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “repute”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
/juˈfimi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Euphemia?
#6,185 among girls’ names, 2025
Euphemia rose from #11,192 in 2015 to #6,185 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 11.8 per million.
26 babies in 1915, the peak
Euphemia peaked in 1915, when 26 girls were given it, #1,417 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,185 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,606 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,744 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,074 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,162 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,676 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,867 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,827 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,192 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,069 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,192 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,179 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,615 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,622 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,577 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,004 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,503 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,171 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,715 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,665 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,664 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,875 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,819 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,545 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,391 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,932 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,835 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,266 | 7.2 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,964 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,956 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,699 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,313 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,142 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,353 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,836 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,380 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,767 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,600 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,018 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,205 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,044 | 15.8 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,152 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,102 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,101 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,418 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,461 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,645 | 21.1 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,417 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,169 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,425 | 27.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,755 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,399 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,454 | 27.7 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,731 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,168 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,192 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,068 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 14 | #943 | 53.4 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,882 | 18.9 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,029 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,048 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,023 | 46.4 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,428 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,158 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,010 | 47.1 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,017 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,330 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,113 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,037 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,259 | 31.5 |
| 1889 | 11 | #816 | 61.7 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,068 | 39.2 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,166 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 6 | #965 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 8 | #813 | 62.0 |
| 1883 | 7 | #776 | 62.3 |
| 1881 | 6 | #770 | 65.3 |
| 1880 | 6 | #778 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Euphemia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Euphemia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Euphemia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Euphemia, and how old are they?
An estimated 223 Americans named Euphemia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Euphemia (465 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,454 babies since 1880, Euphemia is the most given (53% of them).
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 Euphemia
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 Euphemia and names like it
- Compare Euphemia and EufemiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sEuphemia peaked in 1915.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Euphemia since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Euphemia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Euphemia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Euphemia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.