Ephraim

maleStatistical record

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

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

Ephraim: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #370 in 2005, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1591
1997	#2337
1998	#1367
1999	#1505
2000	#1167
2001	#1467
2002	#2005
2003	#1410
2004	#1110
2005	#1135
2006	#984
2007	#952
2008	#1048
2009	#1133
2010	#942
2011	#1209
2012	#947
2013	#1294
2014	#1370
2015	#1236
2016	#1363
2017	#1247
2018	#1533
2019	#1439
2020	#1230
2021	#1595
2022	#1469
2023	#1071
2024	#968

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 · Boys

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

In 2024: #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #968 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1591 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2005–2025
Highest recorded position: #370 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2005 (recorded 2005–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Ephraim appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 521 births with the name.

Ephraim across 2 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.

Ephraim'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 · Boys	#1591 (1996)	#942 (2010)	#968 (2024)	29 of 29	521 (1996–2024)	32 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#370 (2005)	#370 (2005)	#509 (2025)	8 of 21	38 (2005–2025)	7 (2024)

Ephraim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Ephraim in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	168	10 of 10	17
2010s	213	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	112	5 of 10	22

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 22 births a year.

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

Ephraim 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #370 in Republic of Ireland in 2005.

Ephraim'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	male	#968	32	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1071	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1469	17	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1439	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1247	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1236	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1294	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#947	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#942	30	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#952	26	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#984	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1167	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1367	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1591	7	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#370	6	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 24 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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Eren · #518, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Elana · #370, 29y
Jazmine · #370, 29y
Lily-Anne · #370, 27y
Gino · #369, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aime · #370, 17y
Cassidy · #370, 30y
Elana · #370, 29y
Jazmine · #370, 29y

Ephraim was ranked #370 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2005. 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.

Ephraim 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 Ephraim without appearing here.

Ephraim moved ahead of

Brent Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1135 and #1095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #984 and #2538.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2005 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2005 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #2857.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1167 and #2501.

Moved ahead of Ephraim

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2005 and #848.
Theodor Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1294 and #1339 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1370 and #1012.
Mohammed Compare
In 2006 they stood at #370 and #448 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #629 and #282.
Erik Compare
In 2006 they stood at #370 and #518 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #629 and #342.

Moved the opposite way to Ephraim

Kelly Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Ephraim went from #2337 to #1071 while Kelly went from #1454 to #3523.
Espen Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ephraim went from #2005 to #968 while Espen went from #3225 to #5119.
Morten Compare
Between 1997 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Ephraim went from #2337 to #1236 while Morten went from #2859 to #4747.

Moved the same way as Ephraim

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ephraim went from #2337 to #968 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #370 in Republic of Ireland in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ephraim

Ephraim at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ephraim across 2 official records

Ephraim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ephraim appears in

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Ephraim at a glance

Ephraim across 2 official records

Ephraim by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ephraim

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