Given name · also Greek
Yefim
“one who speaks well”
Yefim is used as a given name. One Russian interpretation is “one who speaks well.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Russian interpretation is “one who speaks well.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
Yefim developed from Greek Euphémios. The earlier name combines eu (“well, good”) and phénai (“to speak, say”).
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yefim through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,364 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yefim’s family of names
Yefim is a masculine form of Euphemia. In German usage, Yefim has a related form in EFIM. Yefim has a related form in Yefem.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yefim
- Yefim FominSoviet political commissar (1909–1941)
- Yefim BronfmanIsraeli-American pianistborn 1958
- Yefim GolyshevUkrainian artist (1897-1970)
- Yefim VolkovRussian painter (1844-1920)
- Yefim ChulakSoviet volleyball playerborn 1948
- Yefim KopelyanSoviet actor (1912-1975)
- Yefim Gamburganimator (1925-2000)
- Yefim YevdokimovSoviet politician (1891–1940)
- Yefim Yulyevich UchitelSoviet cameraman and director of documentary films, front-line operator (1913-1988)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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