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Pheobe

#7,061 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Phoebe

Pheobe has been given to 1,136 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #7,061 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Pheobe, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pheobe: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Phoebe

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pheobe means

Pheobe is a variant of Phoebe.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pheobe → 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, 1,136 girls were recorded with the name Pheobe between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2009; its best national rank was #903 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,567 in 2020 to #7,061 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,984 in 2015 to #7,061 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 Pheobe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,061
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pheobe 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pheobe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pheobes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pheobe was born before 1998 — so the typical Pheobe is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
715
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2000s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (243).

Is Pheobe 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
+1,766
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−494
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,077
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.7%
Peak was 2009 (49)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#903
1885

Spellings of Pheobe

Pheobe is not the most common spelling — Phoebe is, with 91.4% against Pheobe's 2.4%.

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 Pheobe is used

Across 1910–2025, Pheobe was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,182,390 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Pheobe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pheobe around the world

Where Pheobe 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
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • Ireland
    1999–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1958–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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

Pheobe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,061
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 494
Best rank ever
#903
1885
Peak year
2009
49 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,136
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Pheobe

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

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Sibling names for Pheobe

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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