🔥Effie

English diminutive of Euphemia, Greek
"pleasant speech"

Effie Origin and Meaning

The name Effie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pleasant speech".

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.

# 982 in the US

Effie Rank in US Top 1000

# 410 on Nameberry

Effie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Effie Popularity

Famous People Named Effie

  • Euphemia Chalmers "Effie" Gray
    English wife to painter John Everett Millais and art critic John Ruskin
  • Effie Shannon
    American silent film actress
  • Effie Louise Power
    American pioneering children's librarian
  • Euphemia "Effie" Ellsler
    American actress of stage and screen
  • (Marie) Effie Wilton
    Lady Bancroft, English actress
  • Euphemia "Effie" Germon
    American actress
  • Effie Crockett
    American actress
  • Effie Cherry
    American vaudevillian of the Cherry Sisters act
  • Effie Hotchkiss
    first transcontinental female motorcyclist with her mother Avis Hotchkiss
  • Effie McCollum Jones
    American Universalist minister and suffragette
  • Effie Mae Smith
    American R&B singer
  • Effie Adelaide Maria Rowlands
    British novelist

Effie in Pop Culture

  • Effie Kaligaris
    character in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series
  • Effie Trinket
    character in "The Hunger Games" trilogy
  • Effie White
    a main character from musical "Dreamgirls"
  • Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfire
    title character in the film "Mrs. Doubtfire"
  • Effie
    Hannah Gruen's scatterbrained niece in the Nancy Drew series
  • "Effie Briest
    " novel by German realist writer Theodor Fontane and its main character
  • Effie
    character from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"