Euphemia
Euphemia reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 1,405, and has been recorded 771 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,116th. About 230 Euphemias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Euphemia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 771
- Estimated living today
- 230
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,405th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,116th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Euphemias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 771 babies given the name since 1880, about 230 are alive — 29 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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 Ancient Greek
Name of an early Christian martyr, from Ancient Greek Εὐφημία.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Euphemias
- Euphemia (289–304)Christian virgin and martyr saint
- Euphemia of Kyiv (1099–1139)Hungarian queen
People named Euphemia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Euphemia is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular girls’ names the year Euphemia peaked:
Euphemia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Euphemia | 102 | 2,488th |
| Scotland girls | Euphemia | 26 | 357th |
| France girls | Euphemia +1 spelling | 10 | 5,073rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Euphemia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Euphemia | 876 | 2,571 |
| the Netherlands boys | Euphemia | — | 27 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – 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.
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.