Jefim
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/jɛfim/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Jefim is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Jefim is also written Ефим in Cyrillic and יפים in Hebrew.
- MDMoldova1 in 1.7Kas Efim(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.4Kas יפים
- RURussia≈1 in 9.9Kas Ефим
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jefim itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 named Ефим, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, as Efim
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jefim in other scripts: Cyrillic, Hebrew and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled יפים in IL Israel, MD Moldova, BY Belarus, Ефим in RU Russia, Юхим in UA Ukraine and Yefim 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.
How to pronounce Jefim
- Polish:/jɛfim/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jefim 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #319 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | register #103 | Ефим | 160 |
| IL Israel | #304 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | יפים | 31 |
| UA Ukraine | #257 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Юхим | 32 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,949as Efim | 1 in 1.7K | 1.9K | יפים | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,364as Yefim | 1 in 244K | 1.4K | Yefim | 134 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | יפים | 20 |
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; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Efim Bogoljubovb. 1889DEnot in their usual nameRussian chess player (1889–1952)
- Efim Prigozhinb. 1914UAnot in their usual nameSoviet engineer
- Efim Zelmanovb. 1955USnot in their usual nameRussian-american mathematician
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jefim?
- In Polish /jɛfim/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jefim a male or female name?
- Jefim is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: Finland (DVV). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Jefim?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Ефим in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Ukraine, Moldova and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jefim most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Jefim itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Moldova's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people named Efim.
- How common is the name Jefim?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 1,949 people named Efim, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Jefim compared with other names?
- In Russia, Jefim is the 319th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jefim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jefimThe 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, “Jefim” — the 319th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.