Efá
given name · Latin script
Efá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Danish Efraim.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 89Kfew records
- NGNigeria≈1 in 150Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Efa in ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia, NG Nigeria and 3 more.
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)Borrowed from Danish Efraim.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Efá 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Efa | 82 |
| ET Ethiopia | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Efa | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 147K | listed | Efa | 25 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Efa | 21 |
| IN India | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Efa | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Efa | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 23 | 1 in 9.2M | 23 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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 Efá mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Danish Efraim. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people named Efá?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Efá in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled efa. After it come Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malaysia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Efá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23 people named Efá in 2022, about 1 in 9.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Efá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ef%C3%A1The 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, “Efá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.