Efren
#2,183 for boys in 2025, 65 births
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 174 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,198since 1915
Efren over time
Rank among boys' names. Efren has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,183 | 65 |
| 2024 | #2,595 | 51 |
| 2023 | #1,896 | 83 |
| 2022 | #2,150 | 68 |
| 2021 | #2,060 | 71 |
| 2020 | #1,895 | 78 |
| 2019 | #1,790 | 86 |
| 2018 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | #1,809 | 83 |
| 2016 | #1,687 | 93 |
| 2015 | #1,613 | 99 |
| 2014 | #1,588 | 99 |
| 2013 | #1,444 | 114 |
| 2012 | #1,676 | 91 |
| 2011 | #1,385 | 120 |
| 2010 | #1,349 | 126 |
| 2009 | #1,191 | 151 |
| 2008 | #1,227 | 142 |
| 2007 | #977 | 201 |
| 2006 | #976 | 190 |
| 2005 | #976 | 178 |
| 2004 | #971 | 172 |
| 2003 | #909 | 183 |
| 2002 | #889 | 183 |
| 2001 | #840 | 193 |
| 2000 | #875 | 180 |
| 1999 | #819 | 186 |
| 1998 | #823 | 180 |
| 1997 | #871 | 160 |
| 1996 | #789 | 184 |
| 1995 | #827 | 168 |
| 1994 | #835 | 163 |
| 1993 | #848 | 156 |
| 1992 | #820 | 164 |
| 1991 | #781 | 173 |
| 1990 | #768 | 174 |
| 1989 | #911 | 124 |
| 1988 | #875 | 118 |
| 1987 | #852 | 120 |
| 1986 | #821 | 122 |
| 1985 | #891 | 103 |
| 1984 | #884 | 97 |
| 1983 | #827 | 111 |
| 1982 | #834 | 113 |
| 1981 | #823 | 114 |
| 1980 | #828 | 113 |
| 1979 | #834 | 109 |
| 1978 | #803 | 112 |
| 1977 | #949 | 81 |
| 1976 | #853 | 95 |
| 1975 | #882 | 88 |
| 1974 | #861 | 86 |
| 1973 | #904 | 78 |
| 1972 | #1,024 | 62 |
| 1971 | #965 | 71 |
| 1970 | #940 | 72 |
| 1969 | #1,000 | 59 |
| 1968 | #1,057 | 49 |
| 1967 | #1,181 | 40 |
| 1966 | #932 | 61 |
| 1965 | #1,271 | 36 |
| 1964 | #1,147 | 45 |
| 1963 | #1,138 | 46 |
| 1962 | #1,121 | 47 |
| 1961 | #1,121 | 49 |
| 1960 | #1,178 | 44 |
| 1959 | #1,172 | 44 |
| 1958 | #1,321 | 34 |
| 1957 | #1,457 | 29 |
| 1956 | #1,317 | 34 |
| 1955 | #1,503 | 26 |
| 1954 | #1,361 | 31 |
| 1953 | #1,408 | 29 |
| 1952 | #1,378 | 30 |
| 1951 | #1,553 | 23 |
| 1950 | #1,464 | 25 |
| 1949 | #1,252 | 33 |
| 1948 | #1,256 | 33 |
| 1947 | #1,916 | 16 |
| 1946 | #1,475 | 23 |
| 1945 | #1,633 | 17 |
| 1944 | #1,574 | 19 |
| 1943 | #1,636 | 19 |
| 1942 | #1,682 | 18 |
| 1941 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | #1,519 | 20 |
| 1939 | #1,489 | 20 |
| 1938 | #2,185 | 11 |
| 1937 | #2,088 | 12 |
| 1936 | #1,639 | 17 |
| 1935 | #1,708 | 17 |
| 1934 | #2,393 | 10 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #1,254 | 29 |
| 1931 | #2,101 | 13 |
| 1930 | #2,444 | 11 |
| 1929 | #1,378 | 27 |
| 1928 | #1,611 | 22 |
| 1927 | #1,322 | 31 |
| 1926 | #2,186 | 14 |
| 1925 | #2,012 | 16 |
| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
| 1923 | #2,123 | 15 |
| 1922 | #1,952 | 17 |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #3,392 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Efren! It came in at #3,392, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Efren
- 412 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,183)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#1,895 → #2,183)
- 570 spots since 2015 (#1,613 → #2,183)
- Biggest jump: 339 spots in 1966 (#1,271 → #932)
- Biggest drop: 250 spots in 2008 (#977 → #1,227)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1990 at #768 (174 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 27 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 39 yrs · run 1973–2007
- Highest: 1 in 10,067 boys born in 2001 were named Efren (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,278 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #768 in 1990, was only 1 in 11,805 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 21.6% of all boys named Efren (1,773) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,391 (1919) | #3,654 |
| 1920s | 163 | #1,322 (1927) | #2,320 |
| 1930s | 147 | #1,254 (1932) | #2,031 |
| 1940s | 209 | #1,252 (1949) | #1,615 |
| 1950s | 305 | #1,172 (1959) | #1,393 |
| 1960s | 476 | #932 (1966) | #1,115 |
| 1970s | 854 | #803 (1978) | #902 |
| 1980s | 1,135 | #821 (1986) | #855 |
| 1990s | 1,708 | #768 (1990) | #818 |
| 2000s | 1,773 | #840 (2001) | #983 |
| 2010s | 994 | #1,349 (2010) | #1,616 |
| 2020s | 416 | #1,895 (2020) | #2,130 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Efren in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
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2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 14,367 of them was named Efren, which outranked 91.6% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,224Clyde143
- #1,224Dariel143
- #1,224Zyon143
- #1,227Efren142
- #1,227Dwight142
- #1,227Eliot142
- #1,227Jeff142
- #1,233Aarush141
- #1,233Fidel141
- #1,233Freddie141
Tied with 5 names at #1,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.