Efrain
Efrain reached its high-water mark in 1993 at number 507, and has been recorded 18,586 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,492nd. About 17,000 Efrains are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Efrain boys named Efrain
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,586
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 507th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,492nd
- First recorded
- 1920
- Girls / boys
- 29 / 18,557
How old the living Efrains are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,586 babies given the name since 1920, about 17,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 970 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efraín.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Efrains
- Efraín Ríos Montt (1926–2018)former de facto President of Guatemala, army general, genocida and former president of Congress
- Efraín Juárez (born 1988)Mexican former footballer and coach
- Efraín Sánchez (1926–2020)Colombian footballer
- Efraín Álvarez (born 2002)Mexican association football player
- Efraín Amézcua (born 1907)Mexican footballer
- Efrain Escudero (born 1986)Mexican mixed martial artist
- Efrain Rintaro (born 1991)Brazilian association football player
- Efraín Gutiérrez (born 1954)Honduran footballer
People named Efrain with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Efrain is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Efrain is most concentrated in California (3.3×), Texas (3.2×), Arizona (2.5×), New York (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Efrain peaked:
Efrain among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Efrain | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Efrain lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,322 men called Efrain were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Efrain | 106 | 0.199 | 505 |
| Palmas, Las | Efrain | 109 | 0.187 | 518 |
| Burgos | Efrain | 19 | 0.105 | 625 |
| Albacete | Efrain | 19 | 0.097 | 630 |
| Palencia | Efrain | 7 | 0.089 | 697 |
| Ávila | Efrain | 7 | 0.087 | 668 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Efrain against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.