Effie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Effie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Effie: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #201 in 2021, and it stood at #443 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#201highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#2152
1998	#3142
1999	#2770
2000	#2167
2001	#2466
2002	#2301
2003	#1628
2004	#2802
2005	#2682
2006	#2509
2007	#2233
2008	#1302
2009	#916
2010	#634
2011	#635
2012	#614
2013	#509
2014	#365
2015	#343
2016	#335
2017	#350
2018	#236
2019	#308
2020	#204
2021	#201
2022	#254
2023	#206
2024	#224

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #224 among girls in England and Wales, #244 among girls in Scotland, #320 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #201 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Effie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,463 births with the name.

Effie across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Effie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#201 (2021)	#224 (2024)	29 of 29	2,463 (1996–2024)	254 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#237 (2023)	#237 (2023)	7 of 16	28 (2008–2023)	7 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#868 (2016)	#320 (2024)	#443 (2025)	8 of 10	47 (2016–2025)	12 (2024)

Effie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Effie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	121	10 of 10	12
2010s	1,182	10 of 10	118
2020sbusiest	1,135	5 of 10	227

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 227 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 87, from 155 to 242.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Effie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #201 in England and Wales in 2021.

Effie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#224	213	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#206	239	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#254	187	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#201	254	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#204	242	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#308	155	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#236	213	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#350	134	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#335	146	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#343	138	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#365	123	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#509	82	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#614	68	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#635	63	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#634	60	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#916	36	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1302	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2152	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#237	7	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#444	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	12	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#244	15	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #201, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 254 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jace · #200, 29y
Kaden · #203, 29y
Syeda · #199, 30y
Zander · #199, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Katie-Leigh · #201, 21y
Kornelius · #201, 30y
Zayd · #201, 30y
Hamzah · #202, 29y

Effie was ranked #201 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Effie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Effie without appearing here.

Effie moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2466 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2301 and #4137.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2466 and #3998.
Kristin Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2233 and #1741 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1302 and #2721.
Lorraine Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2233 and #1854 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1302 and #2721.

Moved ahead of Effie

Ada Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1755 and #2683 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2152 and #1543.
Mila Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2152 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3142 and #2701.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #635 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #614 and #284.
Aria Compare
In 2010 they stood at #634 and #773 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #635 and #615.

Moved the opposite way to Effie

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Effie

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Effie went from #1755 to #224 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #201 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Effie

Effie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Effie across 3 official records

Effie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Effie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Effie

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Effie moved ahead of

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Effie at a glance

Effie across 3 official records

Effie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Effie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Effie

Effie and the names beside it

Effie moved ahead of

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