Phebe
Phebe was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,668 among girls’ names; 2,958 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,670 Americans named Phebe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 14 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Phebe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Phebe?
#5,668 among girls’ names, 2025
Phebe fell from #4,826 in 2015 to #5,668 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.2 to 13.7 per million.
45 babies in 2011, the peak
Phebe peaked in 2011, when 45 girls were given it, #3,540 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,668 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,747 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,258 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,875 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,202 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,520 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,242 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,987 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,781 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,500 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #4,826 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,084 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,064 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,460 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,540 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,278 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,849 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,618 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,346 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,139 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,629 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,728 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,011 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,355 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,323 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,266 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,158 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,079 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,959 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,539 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,878 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,609 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,912 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,921 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,167 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,047 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,309 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,154 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,528 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,672 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,274 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,635 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,102 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,166 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,016 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,729 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,850 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,102 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,067 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,715 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,032 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,627 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,132 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,363 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,892 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,756 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,203 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,656 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,640 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,383 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,690 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,117 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,230 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,016 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,490 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,182 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,568 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,289 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,107 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,857 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,829 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,788 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,822 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,324 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,236 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,563 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 25 | #1,253 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 22 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 19 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,063 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,603 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,299 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,285 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,041 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 15 | #930 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 13 | #957 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 22 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 12 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 15 | #910 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 18 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 19 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 22 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 21 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 22 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 24 | #537 | 0.13 |
| 1890 | 20 | #596 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 30 | #450 | 0.17 |
| 1888 | 17 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 20 | #508 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 19 | #524 | 0.13 |
| 1885 | 32 | #361 | 0.24 |
| 1884 | 10 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 13 | #557 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 25 | #357 | 0.23 |
| 1881 | 20 | #381 | 0.22 |
| 1880 | 15 | #447 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Phebe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Phebe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Phebe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Phebe, and how old are they?
1,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 56% of the 2,958 Americans ever recorded as Phebe. The median Phebe alive today is 27 years old; half are between 14 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,740 people named Phebe (1,734 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 100 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 206 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 246 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 223 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 495 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 394 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,439 babies since 1880, Phebe is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 48 babies (46%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Phebe
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Phebe and names like it
- Compare Phebe and PheobeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPhebe peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Phebe since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Phebe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Phebe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.