Efren

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Efren is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efrén.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.2K◐
  • MXMexico1 in 2.1K
  • ECEcuador1 in 2.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
301 ●

416K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.9K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

EfrenLatin · Spanish●374K records
ЭфренCyrillic · Russian●59 records

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●

Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efrén.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Efren is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#287149,967119K rec.—526Efren174
PH Philippines#133136,248120K rec.—97KEfren105
VE Venezuela#65837,12715K rec.—4.4KEfren48
US United States—14,582114K rec.1 in 23K15KEfren301
CO Colombia#46811,1384.8K rec.—3Efren88
AR Argentina—8,5006.4K rec.—3Efren45
PE Peru—7,5306.2K rec.——Efren42
EC Ecuador#4165,825△467 rec.1 in 2.9K5.8KEfren39
ES Spain—2,8794.7K rec.1 in 17K2.9KEfren98
PY Paraguay#5172,5801.5K rec.——Efren16
GB United Kingdom—1,7942.1K rec.——Efren47
CA Canada—1,6253.2K rec.——Efren57

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish374K66%
  • English129K23%
  • 11K2%
  • Indonesian5.8K1%
  • Portuguese5.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish373,68166%
English128,95723%
11,2832%
Indonesian5,8181%
Portuguese5,6481%

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◐

Efren is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name12K records spelled Efren3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Efrén, Efrèn

  • Swedish given name460 records spelled Efren8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Philippines, Ecuador

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Efrén

  • Italian given name346 records spelled Efren2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, San Marino, Spain

    Also written Efrén

  • Finnish given name201 records spelled Efren4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Efrén

  • Sinhala given name186 records spelled Efren2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Ecuador

    Also written Efrén

  • Hungarian given name98 records spelled Efren2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Philippines

    Also written Efrén

32 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.

Over time●

05010015019502000148 · 1981

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Efren in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1902–2024
Yearrecords
19022
19032
19042
19051
19061
19072
19083
19091
19104
19114
19129
19133
19145
19157
19164
19175
19185
19192
19204
19213
19224
19235
19248
19258
192617
192715
192810
192920
193012
193116
193213
193316
193417
193511
193620
193721
193822
193927
194032
194131
194224
194331
194428
194528
194626
194748
194843
194931
195044
195152
195241
195353
195454
195565
195666
195767
195861
195965
196089
196190
196270
196383
1964102
1965106
1966128
196797
1968112
1969108
1970125
1971119
1972115
1973101
1974108
1975113
1976122
1977105
1978103
1979109
1980108
1981148
1982116
198399
1984109
1985129
198697
1987106
198890
198977
199083
199182
199277
199352
199470
199593
199642
199743
199865
199956
200044
200155
200240
200355
200444
200539
200643
200750
200832
200939
201045
201134
201229
201330
201425
201516
201624
201716
201821
201915
202015
20219
202215
202314
202410

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 123 years between 1902–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Efren
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202297K#84
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,927
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—5.8K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20245.8K#264
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—4.4K#293
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.9K#1,356
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#610
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—526#144
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—455#890
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—224#10,791
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022214—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—214#24,231

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 477 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Efren?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Efren (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Efren have the most bearers?
Efren is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled efren.
How common is Efren compared with other names?
In Mexico, Efren is the 287th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Efren a male or female name?
Efren 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 Efren mean?
Recorded meaning: Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efrén.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Efren” — the 287th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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