Efrain
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #10,847 · #1,492 for boys in 2025, 118 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1981 · 313 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,557since 1920
Efrain over time
Rank among boys' names. Efrain has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,492 | 118 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,438 | 126 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,358 | 139 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,308 | 144 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,273 | 149 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,255 | 147 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,296 | 143 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,168 | 164 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,042 | 193 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,134 | 170 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,057 | 188 | |
| 2014 | — | #965 | 218 | |
| 2013 | — | #925 | 221 | |
| 2012 | — | #884 | 237 | |
| 2011 | — | #897 | 229 | |
| 2010 | — | #808 | 265 | |
| 2009 | — | #789 | 286 | |
| 2008 | — | #755 | 294 | |
| 2007 | — | #641 | 380 | |
| 2006 | — | #665 | 342 | |
| 2005 | — | #612 | 366 | |
| 2004 | — | #585 | 380 | |
| 2003 | — | #577 | 382 | |
| 2002 | — | #582 | 372 | |
| 2001 | — | #554 | 379 | |
| 2000 | — | #553 | 382 | |
| 1999 | — | #528 | 392 | |
| 1998 | — | #540 | 371 | |
| 1997 | — | #541 | 366 | |
| 1996 | — | #524 | 380 | |
| 1995 | — | #525 | 374 | |
| 1994 | — | #516 | 383 | |
| 1993 | — | #507 | 405 | |
| 1992 | — | #521 | 377 | |
| 1991 | — | #498 | 391 | |
| 1990 | — | #536 | 342 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #510 | 352 |
| 1988 | — | #545 | 285 | |
| 1987 | — | #540 | 284 | |
| 1986 | — | #519 | 293 | |
| 1985 | — | #563 | 247 | |
| 1984 | — | #546 | 253 | |
| 1983 | — | #523 | 254 | |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #575 | 223 |
| 1981 | — | #469 | 313 | |
| 1980 | — | #505 | 282 | |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 | #517 | 265 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #516 | 253 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #522 | 253 |
| 1976 | — | #513 | 244 | |
| 1975 | — | #497 | 258 | |
| 1974 | — | #508 | 243 | |
| 1973 | — | #509 | 233 | |
| 1972 | — | #544 | 213 | |
| 1971 | — | #550 | 214 | |
| 1970 | — | #582 | 192 | |
| 1969 | — | #559 | 195 | |
| 1968 | — | #590 | 167 | |
| 1967 | — | #569 | 175 | |
| 1966 | — | #584 | 166 | |
| 1965 | — | #609 | 158 | |
| 1964 | — | #644 | 146 | |
| 1963 | — | #647 | 148 | |
| 1962 | — | #654 | 140 | |
| 1961 | — | #636 | 152 | |
| 1960 | — | #687 | 131 | |
| 1959 | — | #686 | 123 | |
| 1958 | — | #736 | 101 | |
| 1957 | — | #661 | 132 | |
| 1956 | — | #688 | 115 | |
| 1955 | — | #693 | 112 | |
| 1954 | — | #699 | 107 | |
| 1953 | — | #669 | 113 | |
| 1952 | — | #794 | 78 | |
| 1951 | — | #813 | 75 | |
| 1950 | — | #934 | 54 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,047 | 45 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,047 | 45 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,116 | 42 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,278 | 30 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,103 | 35 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,152 | 33 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,431 | 24 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,228 | 32 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,276 | 27 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,627 | 18 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,958 | 13 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,741 | 16 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,481 | 21 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,801 | 15 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,757 | 16 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,932 | 14 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,093 | 12 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,324 | 27 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,489 | 22 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,496 | 24 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,413 | 26 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,745 | 20 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,964 | 17 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Efrain! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1921, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Efrain is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#231 · 1 in 2,056
- New York#270 · 1 in 2,250
- Massachusetts#294 · 1 in 4,144
- California#296 · 1 in 2,346
- New Jersey#322 · 1 in 3,183
Best ever in a state: #188 in New Jersey, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #231 | 8 | 1 in 2,056 |
| New York | #270 | 49 | 1 in 2,250 |
| Massachusetts | #294 | 8 | 1 in 4,144 |
| California | #296 | 72 | 1 in 2,346 |
| New Jersey | #322 | 13 | 1 in 3,183 |
| Illinois | #343 | 25 | 1 in 3,176 |
| Texas | #368 | 39 | 1 in 2,952 |
| Washington | #429 | 5 | 1 in 5,356 |
| Pennsylvania | #490 | 8 | 1 in 9,171 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Efrain
- 54 spots since 2024 (#1,438 → #1,492)
- 237 spots since 2020 (#1,255 → #1,492)
- 435 spots since 2015 (#1,057 → #1,492)
- Biggest jump: 125 spots in 1953 (#794 → #669)
- Biggest drop: 114 spots in 2008 (#641 → #755)
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1981 at #469 (313 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 38 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 65 yrs · run 1950–2014
- Highest: 1 in 4,843 boys born in 1993 were named Efrain (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,475 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #469 in 1981, was only 1 in 5,723 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.4% of all boys named Efrain (3,781) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 109 | #1,413 (1929) | #2,577 |
| 1930s | 180 | #1,324 (1932) | #1,707 |
| 1940s | 331 | #1,047 (1948) | #1,231 |
| 1950s | 1,010 | #661 (1957) | #737 |
| 1960s | 1,578 | #559 (1969) | #618 |
| 1970s | 2,368 | #497 (1975) | #526 |
| 1980s | 2,786 | #469 (1981) | #530 |
| 1990s | 3,781 | #498 (1991) | #524 |
| 2000s | 3,563 | #553 (2000) | #631 |
| 2010s | 2,028 | #808 (2010) | #1,018 |
| 2020s | 823 | #1,255 (2020) | #1,354 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Efrain in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 306,372 of them was named Efrain, which outranked 15.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,725 names at #9,750; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 6,489 of them was named Efrain, which outranked 92.4% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).