girl's name

Efrata

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 375

Efrata is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 11 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2016, when 18 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 301,477 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 2005.

Efrata over time

Births per decade in the United States, 2000s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Efrata by decade in the United States
Decade Births
2000s 13
2010s 117
2020s (to 2025) 68

How popular is Efrata?

In 2025, Efrata was given to 11 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Efrata is used

Canada #1,634 14 in 2024
England & Wales #2,855 9 in 2025
France #6,023 5 in 2023
United States #8,970 11 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Efrata

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Efrata also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Efrata over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Efrata

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Efrata — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Efrata

How popular is the name Efrata?

In 2025, Efrata was given to 11 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Efrata a girl's or a boy's name?

Efrata is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Efrata most popular?

Efrata peaked in 2016, when 18 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Efrata a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Efrata currently ranks #1,634 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.