Effie

Where Effie comes from

From Euphemia + -ie, or, very rarely, from modern Greek Eftychia or Euthemia (diminutive form).
— Wiktionary's entry for Effie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1855
    Effie Ellsler born
    American actress
  2. 1867
    Effie Shannon born
    American actress
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #63 among girls — 406 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1882
    Peak, #55
    561 babies named Effie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #432.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia, also used as a formal given name in the 19th century.
Namesakes
  • Effie Shannon · American actress, 1867–1954
  • Effie Ellsler · American actress, 1855–1942
  • Effie Bancroft · British actress and manager, 1840–1921
  • Effie Kapsalis · digital program officer for the Smithsonian Institution, 1971–2022
  • Effie Almira Southworth · American botanist, 1860–1947

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.