Effa

Last seen for girls in 1944 at #3,687

Peak · girls
1880 · 11 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
312
since 1880

Effa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Effa has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201884peak #518, 1880girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1944#3,6877
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1942#4,6225
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1927#4,8055
1926#3,8737
1925#4,0287
1924#3,14410
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1922#5,0095
1921#4,4646
1920#4,3986
1919#4,2516
1918#4,2916
1917#3,0929
1916#3,5527
1915#3,7956
1914#2,6388
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1908#1,35710
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1903#1,7925
1902#1,7935
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1900#1,7236
1899#1,3946
1898#1,2638
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1896#1,4166
1895#1,5925
1894#1,1368
1893#1,1757
1892#83013
1891#72714
1890#79112
1889#56720
1888#63616
1887
1886#8977
1885#57614
1884#55614
1883#57911
1882#7407
1881#6797
1880#51811
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Effa was already there! It came in at #518, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1887, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Effa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1944
  • Biggest jump: 161 spots in 1883 (#740#579)
  • Biggest drop: 345 spots in 1893 (#830#1,175)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1880 at #518 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1880–1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,272
  • Highest: 1 in 8,272 girls born in 1880 were named Effa (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 189,603 girls born in 1944 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1880s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Effa (107) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s107#518 (1880)#639
1890s79#727 (1891)#1,147
1900s26#1,357 (1908)#1,666
1910s42#2,638 (1914)#3,603
1920s46#3,144 (1924)#4,246
1930s0
1940s12#3,687 (1944)#4,155

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Effa in 1884

girls
#556
14 births · 1 in 9,216 girls

Top girls' names in 1884

  1. #1Mary9,217
  2. #2Anna3,860
  3. #3Emma2,587
  4. #4Elizabeth2,549
  5. #5Minnie2,243
  6. #6Margaret2,142
  7. #7Ida1,882
  8. #8Clara1,852
  9. #9Bertha1,789
  10. #10Annie1,739
  11. #556Effa14
More about 1884

girls

129,019 girls got a published name in 1884; 1 in 9,216 of them was named Effa, which outranked 52.6% of the 1,172 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Effa
  1. #541Margaretta15
  2. #541Nita15
  3. #541Rosina15
  4. #556Effa14
  5. #556Amalia14
  6. #556Annabelle14
  7. #556Anner14
  8. #583Abigail13
  9. #583Althea13
  10. #583Ana13

Tied with 26 names at #556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1883
Risers
  1. 686Belva#920#234
  2. 364Anner#920#556
  3. 354Nella#817#463
  4. 337Guadalupe#920#583
  5. 337Nelia#920#583
Fallers
  1. 488Roxy#536#1,024
  2. 463Fredericka#561#1,024
  3. 445Albert#579#1,024
  4. 409Roseanna#615#1,024
  5. 373Delpha#651#1,024

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1884