Effie
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Effie
Effie is the old-fashioned short form for Euphemia. It shares a vintage charm with Hattie and Letty although is much rarer than either. Effie is a character in The Hunger Games and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Effie is also given to boys.
Pronounced EF-ee.
As of October 2026, Effie ranked #2245 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #55 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #421.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,241 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #3,098 | 54 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,603 | 68 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,579 | 68 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,367 | 77 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,866 | 58 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,691 | 62 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,232 | 83 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,493 | 72 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #2,111 | 91 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,507 | 71 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,245 | 82 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Effie for girls
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Effie on lists
Famous Effies
- Euphemia Chalmers "Effie" GrayGirl
English wife to painter John Everett Millais and art critic John Ruskin
- Effie ShannonGirl
American silent film actress
- Effie Louise PowerGirl
American pioneering children's librarian
- Euphemia "Effie" EllslerGirl
American actress of stage and screen
- (Marie) Effie WiltonGirl
Lady Bancroft, English actress
- Euphemia "Effie" GermonGirl
American actress
- Effie CrockettGirl
American actress
- Effie CherryGirl
American vaudevillian of the Cherry Sisters act
- Effie HotchkissGirl
first transcontinental female motorcyclist with her mother Avis Hotchkiss
- Effie McCollum JonesGirl
American Universalist minister and suffragette
- Effie Mae SmithGirl
American R&B singer
- Effie Adelaide Maria RowlandsGirl
British novelist
Effie in pop culture
- Effie KaligarisGirl
character in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series
- Effie TrinketGirl
character in "The Hunger Games" trilogy
- Effie WhiteGirl
a main character from musical "Dreamgirls"
- Euphegenia "Effie" DoubtfireGirl
title character in the film "Mrs. Doubtfire"
- EffieGirl
Hannah Gruen's scatterbrained niece in the Nancy Drew series
- "Effie BriestGirl
" novel by German realist writer Theodor Fontane and its main character
- EffieGirl
character from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"