🔥Ephraim

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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.

# 992 in the US

Ephraim Rank in US Top 1000

# 816 on Nameberry

Ephraim Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Ephraim Popularity

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'