Efrat
One of the rarest names on the register in Poland: only about 120 women carry it, and no girls have been given it this century. Hebrew at root, from a word meaning "fruitful".
Efrat Pronunciation
Efrat is pronounced EF-raht (/ˈɛfrat/).
What Efrat means
Where Efrat comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Efrat comes from Hebrew, from the root peh-resh-heh, meaning to be fruitful. The short meaning kept in Poland is plain: fruitful, owocna. In the Hebrew Bible, Ephrathah is an older name for the region around Bethlehem, and the prophet Micah writes of "Bethlehem Ephrathah." The name reaches back to a place and to fields that yield grain.
Efrat also belongs to people. First Chronicles lists Efrat as a wife of Caleb. In modern Israel the name became common for girls, plain and current. There are no standard Polish variants and no nicknames on record, so the form a child receives is the form she keeps.
On a Polish class register Efrat sits apart from Zofia and Maria, foreign in spelling yet easy to read. Its Jewish association is direct. The meaning comes with the name itself: fruitful, owocna, from the Hebrew root that means to bear fruit.
How many people are named Efrat
1 in 186313 women in Poland is named Efrat. 121 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3051 among female names.
Efrat as a middle name
Efrat is a first name for 121 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4726th, between Dżuliana (3) and Eiko (3).
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#4724 Dżemila3
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#4725 Dżuliana3
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#4726 Efrat3
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#4727 Eiko3
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#4728 Ekaterini3