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 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#403 · 1 in 2,817
- Texas#421 · 1 in 2,748
- North Carolina#589 · 1 in 4,297
- Arizona#591 · 1 in 4,143
- Colorado#751 · 1 in 5,501
Best ever in a state: #188 in New Jersey, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #403 | 83 | 1 in 2,817 |
| Texas | #421 | 65 | 1 in 2,748 |
| North Carolina | #589 | 12 | 1 in 4,297 |
| Arizona | #591 | 9 | 1 in 4,143 |
| Colorado | #751 | 5 | 1 in 5,501 |
| Washington | #787 | 6 | 1 in 5,930 |
| Georgia | #904 | 8 | 1 in 6,986 |
| Illinois | #930 | 9 | 1 in 7,759 |
| Virginia | #958 | 5 | 1 in 8,312 |
| New York | #1,069 | 11 | 1 in 9,658 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 6 | 1 in 15,440 |
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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 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 7,240 of them was named Efrain, which outranked 94.3% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.