boys:
1.6k births since 1926
#3095 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1926
#6179 (20th percentile)
The name Efrem is the #6,179 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,567 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 20.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,095 (32.5% percentile) for all time with 1,567 births since 1926.
Efrem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (first recorded for boys in 1926). Birth data for Efrem is available in 66 out of the 98 years between 1926 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Efrem reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 12.2% percentile (ranked #575) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 44 births per million (ranked 11.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Efrem ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Efrem".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Efrem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.0% confident that Efrem is pronounced as EH-fruhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-frehm, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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