🔥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.

Effie Rank in US Top 1000

# 982 in the US

Effie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 361 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Effie

• 361 Nameberry 2025
• 206 England 2023
• 179 Scotland 2022

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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

The name 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"