How rare is the name Effie?

6,614 people in the United States have the first name Effie, about 1 in 45,665. It ranks #3,242 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

EFFIE

#3,242

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,614
About
1 in 45,665
This common or more
82%
Who bears it

Of the 6,614 people named Effie, 62.9% reported their origin as White, 26.6% as Black and 3% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.2% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Effie peaked in 1919, when 938 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
938
In 2025*
82 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 44,497 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Effie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #92. The largest share of babies named Effie, 42.8%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#925,876
1890s#1067,000
1900s#1535,902
1910s#3197,744
1920s#4397,222
1930s#5983,864
1940s#9032,332
1950s#1,3721,483
1960s#2,028798
1970s#2,659593
1980s#4,820302
1990s#8,872175
2000s#9,446220
2010s#5,497522
2020s#4,212464
Before 190130.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2742.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4514.4%
Baby boom 1946–646.3%
Generation X 1965–802.2%
Millennials 1981–960.9%
Generation Z 1997–120.8%
2013 and later2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Effie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Effie has been most common in Mississippi (4.5×), Arkansas (4.2×), and Kentucky (3.6×), and least common in New Jersey (0.06×).

21,321 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Effie

#3,240 Nixon · 6,618#3,241 Idalia · 6,615#3,243 Harriett · 6,611#3,244 Candelaria · 6,609

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