Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Effie was most popular in 1919, when 938 American babies were given the name — ranking #350 that year. In 2025 it ranked #4,052, with 82 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 44,497 people named Effie.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Effie is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 146 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 44,497 American births named Effie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 6,554 are estimated to be alive today.
82 American babies were named Effie in 2025, ranking #4,052 that year.
Effie is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 80 births a year, against 45 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +80% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Effie is a girl’s name — 99.5% of the 44,497 Americans given it were girls and 0.5% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 6,554 Americans named Effie are alive today — 15% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 70 years old, and half are between 46 and 82. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org