Effa

Where Effa comes from

Effa hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1873
    Effa Ellis Perfield born
    American music teacher
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #518 among girls with 11 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1897
    Effa Manley born
    American Hall of Fame baseball executive
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Effa Manley · American Hall of Fame baseball executive, 1897–1981
  • Effa Ellis Perfield · American music teacher, 1873–1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.