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Phebe

#5,668 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Phoebe

Phebe has been given to 2,958 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,668 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Phebe, 2025

1 in 151,000

Phebe over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Phebe: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Phoebe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Phebe means

Phebe is a variant of Phoebe.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Phebe → Phoebe. The family’s meaning is “bright”, recorded in English with the source elements Phoîbos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Phoebe.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,958 girls were recorded with the name Phebe between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 45 in 2011; its best national rank was #357 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,520 in 2020 to #5,668 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,826 in 2015 to #5,668 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 Phebe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,668
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Phebe 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Phebe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Phebes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Phebe was born before 1958 — so the typical Phebe is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
11.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,587
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 11.8% of all recorded uses (348).

Is Phebe 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
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−842
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.76×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.9%
Peak was 2011 (45)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#357
1882

Spellings of Phebe

Phebe is not the most common spelling — Phoebe is, with 77.6% against Phebe's 5.3%.

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 Phebe is used

Across 1910–2025, Phebe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 755,382 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Indiana1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 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. Phebe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Phebe around the world

Where Phebe 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
    1996–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1992–2008
    #4,323
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #2,838
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1984–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Phebe

People whose public names include Phebe, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Phebe in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Phebe. Linked forms have their own page here.

FebePhoebeFeba

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Phebe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,668
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,148
Best rank ever
#357
1882
Peak year
2011
45 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,958
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Phebe

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

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Names with a curve like Phebe

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Phebe, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Phebe

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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