first name
EFRAIN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 32,016 people named Efrain, 97.9% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.4% as White. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Efrain peaked in 1993, when 405 babies got the name.
At least 18,586 babies have been given the name since 1920. 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.
Efrain by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,140. The largest share of babies named Efrain, 29.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
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 Efrain is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Efrain has been most common in California (3.3×), Texas (3.2×), and Arizona (2.5×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.25×).
16,076 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.
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