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Febe

#9,662 in 2025Girls' name

Pure, bright, radiant, through Φοίβη

Febe has been given to 292 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #9,662 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Febe, 2025

1 in 332,000

Febe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Febe: meaning, origin, and history

Pure, bright, radiant, through Φοίβη

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Febe means

Febe belongs to the name family reached through Febe → Φοίβη. Its meaning is “pure, bright, radiant”.

Origin, language, and formation

Febe is used in Italian and Spanish.

Febe comes through Ancient Greek Φοίβη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Φοίβη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Febe is pronounced /ˈfebe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 292 girls were recorded with the name Febe between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2015; its best national rank was #5,113 in 1926.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,307 in 2015 to #9,662 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Febe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,662
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Febe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Febe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Febes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Febe was born before 2009 — so the typical Febe is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Febe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+6,410
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,355
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2015 (20)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,113
1926

Spellings of Febe

Febe is not the most common spelling — Faye is, with 23.1% against Febe's 0.09%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Febe is used

Across 1910–2025, Febe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Febe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Febe around the world

Where Febe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2021
    #4,634
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2000–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Febe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,662
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,113
1926
Peak year
2015
20 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
292
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Febe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Febe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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