Effie
Effie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 71 births. Its best rank was 55th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 710.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1919929 births
- Best rank
- #55in 1882
- Since 1880
- 44,171people given the name
The story in the numbers
44,171 girls have been named Effie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 929 births.
The name has all but left use: 71 births in 2024, against 929 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1915, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 80 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Effie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5,850 | |
| 1890s | 6,961 | |
| 1900s | 5,870 | |
| 1910s | 7,683 | |
| 1920s | 7,171 | |
| 1930s | 3,844 | |
| 1940s | 2,327 | |
| 1950s | 1,483 | |
| 1960s | 798 | |
| 1970s | 586 | |
| 1980s | 302 | |
| 1990s | 175 | |
| 2000s | 220 | |
| 2010s | 522 | |
| 2020s | 379 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Effie was the 201st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Effie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maypeak 1919
- Augustapeak 1915
- Myrtiepeak 1917
- Minniepeak 1916
- Lizziepeak 1919
- Nanniepeak 1920
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Bellpeak 1900
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.