first name
EFREN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,639 people named Efren, 86.2% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 11.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 1.3% as White. Virtually all are male (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Efren peaked in 2007, when 201 babies got the name.
At least 8,198 babies have been given the name since 1915. 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.
Efren by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,892. The largest share of babies named Efren, 32.2%, 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 Efren is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Efren has been most common in California (5.1×), Arizona (4.6×), and Texas (3.9×), and least common in New York (0.18×).
6,159 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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