Efrain
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛfrain/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Efrain is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 42nd most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.3K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 521 (inferred from the name graph)
32,016 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Efraín in BO Bolivia.
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)
Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Efrain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #926 | 32,016 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Efrain | 376 |
| PE Peru | #206 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Efrain | 95 |
| CO Colombia | #339 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 13 | Efrain | 121 |
| VE Venezuela | #228 | 14,041 | 1 in 2K | 14K | Efrain | 54 |
| BO Bolivia | #420 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | — | Efraín | 43 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #42 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 521 | 10 | Efrain | 51 |
| HN Honduras | #80 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Efrain | 29 |
| SV El Salvador | #176 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Efrain | 38 |
32,016 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Efrain is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Spanish form of Ephraim
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Efrain Salinas y Velascob. 1867MXAmerican bishop
- Efrain Arañedab. 1978CLChilean-Tahitian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32K | #1,211 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 14K | #117 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 118 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 79 | #1,211 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 13 | #108 |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2016 | 10 | #214 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Efrain mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Efrain?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛfrain/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Efrain a male or female name?
- Efrain is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Efrain have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Efrain, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled efrain.
- How common is the name Efrain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,016 people named Efrain in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Efrain compared with other names?
- In the United States, Efrain is the 926th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/efrainThe 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, “Efrain” — the 926th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.