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Effie

Effie means "Greek eu (good) + pheme (speech), well-spoken" and comes from Greek, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It belongs mostly to the 1910s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. In total, about 31,004 American babies have carried this name since 1900.

EtymologyDiminutive of Euphemia
GreekGreek "eu" (good) + "pheme" (speech) – "well-spoken"
Births by decade
1900s
5,902
1910s
7,744
1920s
7,222
1930s
3,864
1940s
2,331
1950s
1,483
1960s
795
1970s
589
1980s
302
1990s
173
2000s
213
2010s
386
Peaked in the 1910s · 31,004 total U.S. births since 1900