boys:
7.8k births since 1880
#1338 (71st percentile)
overall:
7.8k births since 1880
#3061 (60th percentile)
The name Ephraim is the #3,061 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,760 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 60.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,338 (70.8% percentile) for all time with 7,760 births since 1880.
Ephraim has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ephraim is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Ephraim reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 27.4% percentile (ranked #664) with 131 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 152 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ephraim ranks #696 for boys (23.6% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 79.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ephraim".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Ephraim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 13.7% confident that Ephraim is pronounced as EE-fruhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-fruhm, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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