English diminutive of Euphemia, Greek
"pleasant speech"
Updated Fri Feb 09 2024
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.
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Famous People Named Effie
- Euphemia Chalmers "Effie" GrayEnglish wife to painter John Everett Millais and art critic John Ruskin
- Effie ShannonAmerican silent film actress
- Effie Louise PowerAmerican pioneering children's librarian
- Euphemia "Effie" EllslerAmerican actress of stage and screen
- (Marie) Effie WiltonLady Bancroft, English actress
- Euphemia "Effie" GermonAmerican actress
- Effie CrockettAmerican actress
- Effie CherryAmerican vaudevillian of the Cherry Sisters act
- Effie Hotchkissfirst transcontinental female motorcyclist with her mother Avis Hotchkiss
- Effie McCollum JonesAmerican Universalist minister and suffragette
- Effie Mae SmithAmerican R&B singer
- Effie Adelaide Maria RowlandsBritish novelist
Effie in Pop Culture
- Effie Kaligarischaracter in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" series
- Effie Trinketcharacter in "The Hunger Games" trilogy
- Effie Whitea main character from musical "Dreamgirls"
- Euphegenia "Effie" Doubtfiretitle character in the film "Mrs. Doubtfire"
- EffieHannah Gruen's scatterbrained niece in the Nancy Drew series
- "Effie Briest" novel by German realist writer Theodor Fontane and its main character
- Effiecharacter from the video game "Fire Emblem Fates"
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