Efrain
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary) (A concise dictionary of first names)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ɛfrain/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Efrain is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Puerto Rico it is the 42nd most common given name. Efrain is also written Эфраин in Cyrillic.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 530few records(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 680few records
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 531 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Efrain in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Efraín in BO Bolivia.
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.
How to pronounce Efrain
- Spanish:/ɛfrain/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Efrain 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #231 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 861 | Efrain | 192 |
| US United States | #926 | 32,016 | 1 in 10K | 32K | Efrain | 376 |
| PE Peru | #206 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Efrain | 95 |
| CO Colombia | #339 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 13 | Efrain | 121 |
| BO Bolivia | #420 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 677 | — | Efraín | 43 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #42 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 531 | 10 | Efrain | 51 |
| SV El Salvador | #176 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Efrain | 38 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)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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Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- 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).
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)47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Efrain mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish form of the biblical name Ephraim (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Efrain?
- In Spanish /ɛfrain/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Efrain a male or female name?
- Efrain is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Efrain?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 thousand people named Efrain in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled efrain. After it come United States, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Efrain?
- In the United States, the national register counted 32,016 people named Efrain in 2020, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Efrain compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Efrain is the 231st most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/efrainThe 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, “Efrain” — ranked 95th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.