girls:
29 births since 1977
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
18.3k births since 1920
#848 (82nd percentile)
overall:
18.3k births since 1920
#1897 (75th percentile)
The name Efrain is the #1,897 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,339 recorded births since 1920. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #848 (81.5% percentile) for all time with 18,310 births since 1920. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1977.
Efrain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1920 (1920 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Efrain is available in 102 out of the 104 years between 1920 and 2023 (102 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Efrain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Efrain reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 41.7% percentile (ranked #449) with 196 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 196 births per million (ranked 41.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 1998, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Efrain ranks #777 for boys (14.7% percentile) with 76 births per million, which is 38.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Efrain reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Efrain".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Efrain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.6% confident that Efrain is pronounced as eh-FRAY-ihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-FRAYN, at 31.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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