Phebe — #5598 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Phebe

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,936 babies named Phebe between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Phebe currently holds the #5598 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 45 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Phebe performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 348 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Phebe shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 36 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Phebe in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Phebe in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,936 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.