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How popular is the name Effie?
Births per year, rank history and how many Effies are alive today.
Effie (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 210th in 2025 with 227 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2021, when 254 babies were given the name, the 201st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 254 in 2022 before climbing back to the 210th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Effie you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Effies born in England and Wales are between 4 and 11, and there are at least 2,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Effie - on average, only one in every 117 such rooms contains a Effie.
How many babies are named Effie each year?
Where does Effie rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Effie most popular?
Effie peaked in 2021, when 254 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Effie?
At least 2,700 people named Effie born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Effie?
Most living Effies are between 4 and 11; the most common age is about 5.
Is Effie becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.