🔥Ephraim

Hebrew

"fruitful, fertile, productive"

Ephraim Origin and Meaning

The name Ephraim is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "fruitful, fertile, productive".

Ephraim is an Old Testament name we would place high on the list of neglected Biblical possibilities, solid but not solemn.

In Genesis, Ephraim is the second son of Joseph, and founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The name also appears as characters in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit, and in works by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. More recently, Ephraim Black was a character in the Twilight saga, a shape-shifter who was the great-grandfather of Jacob.

Father and son violinist and actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. and Sr, simplified the spelling.

Ephraim Rank in US Top 1000

# 978 in the US

Ephraim Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 487 on Nameberry

Ephraim Popularity

• 978 US 2021
• 487 Nameberry 2024
• 91 Unique 2022
• 630 Future 2028

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Famous People Named Ephraim

• Ephraim second son of Joseph and Asenath in the Bible
• Ephraim Katzir 4th President of Israeli
• Ephraim Chambers British encyclopedist
• Ephraim Knight Smart U.S. Congressman from Maine
• Ephraim Curtis American colonel military figure
• Ephraim Kishon Israeli film director
• Ephraim McDowell American surgeon who pioneered abdominal surgery
• Ephraim Mirvis South African rabbi
• Ephraim Webster American pioneer in New York
• Ephraim Francis Baldwin American architect

Ephraim in Pop Culture

• Ephraim Cabot character in play Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
• Ephraim Lapham character in Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Ephraim Tutt character in the novels of Arthur Train
• Ephraim Longstocking father of Pippi Longstocking in the books by Astrid Lindgren
• Ephraim Pontipee character in the 1954 film 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'
• Ephraim Charisi father of Daniel Deronda in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda,' (1876)
• Ephraim MacVittie partner in MacVittie & Co. in 'Rob Roy' (1818) by Sir Walter Scott
• Ephraim Goodweather character from "The Strain"
• Ephraim Black Great,grandfather of Jacob Black in the Twilight Saga
• Ephraim Prince of Renais in video game Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
• Ephraim Brown character on TV's Everwood
• Ephraim Wanker Peggy's father on TV's 'Married with Children'
• Ephraim Atticus Aldridge character on TV's 'Downton Abbey'