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Hebe

Girls' name

Youth, Prime of Life

Hebe has been given to 123 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Hebe, 2022

1 in 484,000

Hebe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hebe: meaning, origin, and history

Youth, Prime of Life

Ancient Greek

What Hebe means

Hebe means “Youth, Prime of Life”, associated with Hḗbē.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē, literally “Youth, Prime of Life”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hebe (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hebe is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Hebe comes through Ancient Greek Ἥβη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hebe is pronounced /ˈhiːbi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 123 girls were recorded with the name Hebe between 1917 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,907 in 1917.

How common is Hebe?

Hebe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hebe 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hebe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hebes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hebe was born before 2015 — so the typical Hebe is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
80.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
118
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 80.5% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Hebe 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (19)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,907
1917

Spellings of Hebe

Hebe is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 74.5% against Hebe's <0.01%.

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 Hebe is used

Across 1910–2025, Hebe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 919,973 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Hebe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hebe around the world

Where Hebe 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2018
    #2,616
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1994–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Hebe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,907
1917
Peak year
2016
19 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
123
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hebe

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

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Sibling names for Hebe

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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