Efren

Where Efren comes from

Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efrén.
— Wiktionary's entry for Efren
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1990
    Peak, #768
    174 babies named Efren — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,809.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish.
Namesakes

No widely known Efren turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.