Effie vs Effrem
American parents have registered 44,497 Effies since 1880, against 24 Effrems. Effie is still ahead, with 82 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Effie Effrem
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Effie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1974, when Effie had 61 and Effrem had 5.
Side by side
| Effie | Effrem | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 44,497 | 24 |
| Most in one year | 938 | 9 |
| Babies in 2025 | 82 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 6,500 | 20 |
| Median age today | 69 | 64 |
| Peak year | 1919 | 1959 |
| Best rank | 201st girls | 2,821st boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,239th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1959 |
| Girls / boys | 44,256 / 241 | 0 / 24 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Effies alive today are over 69; half the Effrems are over 64. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Effie and Effrem.