Efrain

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Efraín in ES Spain, BO Bolivia, GT Guatemala.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Efrain is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name35K records spelled Efrain5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Bolivia

  Also written Efraín, Éfrain, Efraïn, Efraiń

• Hebrew given name2.5K records spelled Efrain35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, United States, Türkiye, Romania

  Languages: Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic

  Also written אפרים, Efrayim, Efraim, אפריים, Ephraim

• Hindi given name2.0K records spelled Efrain10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, Spain

  Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

  Also written Efraín

• Swahili given name1.9K records spelled Efrain4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Ecuador, United Kingdom

  Also written Efraín

• Catalan given name1.3K records spelled Efrain2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain

  Also written Efraín

• Hungarian given name858 records spelled Efrain2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Peru

  Also written Efraín

• Korean given name524 records spelled Efrain2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, United Kingdom, South Korea

  Also written Efraín

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 121 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 648 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Efrain?

We estimate roughly 46 thousand people bear Efrain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Efrain have the most bearers?

Efrain is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled efrain.

How common is Efrain compared with other names?

In Mexico, Efrain is the 231st most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Efrain mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary).