Effa

Where Effa comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Effa.

  • Vowel-ended
Effa through the years
  1. 1873
    Effa Ellis Perfield born
    American music teacher
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #518 among girls with 11 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1897
    Effa Manley born
    American Hall of Fame baseball executive
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Effa Manley · American Hall of Fame baseball executive, 1897–1981
  • Effa Ellis Perfield · American music teacher, 1873–1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.