Efrén
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Ephraim or Ephrem
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛfrɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Efrén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 902(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.9K
- COColombia≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 902 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Efren in PH Philippines, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Ephraim or Ephrem
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Efrén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #132 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | 97K | Efren | 119 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Efren | 29 |
| US United States | — | 14,639 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Efren | 337 |
| CO Colombia | #499 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 3 | Efren | 89 |
| EC Ecuador | #187 | 5,825 | 1 in 2.9K | 5.8K | Efren | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | #570 | 4,415 | 1 in 6.5K | 4.4K | Efren | 46 |
| PY Paraguay | #557 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Efren | 16 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Efrén 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 Spanish, Variante de Efraín
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Efrén Rebolledob. 1877MXMexican poet (1877–1929)
- Saturnino Herrán Guinchardb. 1887MXnot in their usual nameMexican painter (1887–1918)
- Efrén Hernándezb. 1904MXMexican writer (1904-1958)
- Efrén Echeverríab. 1932PYParaguayan musician (1932-2018)
- Efren Herrerab. 1951MXAmerican football player (born 1951)
- Efren Reyesb. 1954PHFilipino pool player
- Efrén Merab. 1985ECfootball player
- Efrén Vázquezb. 1986ESSpanish motorcycle racer
- Efren Navarrob. 1986MXbaseball first baseman and left fielder in the Seattle Mariners organization
- Farrukob. 1991USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican rapper
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #119 |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Efrén mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ephraim or Ephrem Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Efrén?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛfrɛn/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Efrén a male or female name?
- Efrén 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.
- In which country does Efrén have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Efrén in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled efren.
- How common is the name Efrén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,639 people named Efrén in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Efrén compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Efrén is the 132nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Efrén?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/efr%C3%A9nThe 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, “Efrén” — the 132nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.