Éfe
surname · Latin script
Éfe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 1,050 people, counted by the Meertens NVB. Recorded meaning: From efe (“brave person; elder brother”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 16K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 22K
- DKDenmark1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
1,050 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Efe in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From efe (“brave person; elder brother”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- The African book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Éfe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,050 | 1 in 16K | 1K | — | 5 |
| US United States | 549 | 1 in 606K | 435 | Efe | 34 |
| SE Sweden | 466 | 1 in 22K | 466 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 153 | 1 in 38K | 153 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 134 | 1 in 286K | 134 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 107 | 1 in 52K | 164 | — | 2 |
| MD Moldova | 26 | 1 in 129K | 26 | — | — |
1,050 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Éfe mean, and where does it come from?
- From efe (“brave person; elder brother”). Recorded by The African book of names and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Éfe?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Éfe, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Sweden, Denmark and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Éfe most common?
- Éfe is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Éfe?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,050 people named Éfe, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Éfe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A9feThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Éfe” — ranked 1030th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.