Pheobe
Pheobe was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,061 among girls’ names; 1,136 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pheobe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pheobe?
#7,061 among girls’ names, 2025
Pheobe fell from #5,984 in 2015 to #7,061 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 10.0 per million.
49 babies in 2009, the peak
Pheobe peaked in 2009, when 49 girls were given it, #3,395 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,061 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,827 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,954 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,643 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,131 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,567 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,279 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,454 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,354 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,563 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,984 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,154 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,196 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,803 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,024 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,210 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,395 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,428 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,063 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,191 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,745 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,434 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,739 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,958 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,070 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,718 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,084 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,874 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,757 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,468 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,432 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,969 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,980 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,651 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,583 | 2.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,780 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,919 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,064 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,431 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,336 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,041 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,894 | 4.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,664 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,356 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,315 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,282 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,969 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,790 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,025 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,408 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,148 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,128 | 4.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,205 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,490 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,095 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,842 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,162 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,721 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,111 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,398 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,679 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,308 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,836 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,813 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,337 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,915 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,694 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,682 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,604 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,784 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,592 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,736 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,900 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,245 | 14.2 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,481 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,191 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,035 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,622 | 11.5 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,121 | 15.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,596 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,311 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,408 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,899 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,921 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,817 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,908 | 20.3 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,748 | 22.7 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,889 | 20.9 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,263 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,908 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,740 | 21.3 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,110 | 42.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,660 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,076 | 42.3 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,248 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,498 | 27.0 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,179 | 36.8 |
| 1889 | 9 | #941 | 50.5 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,019 | 44.8 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,080 | 41.5 |
| 1885 | 7 | #903 | 52.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,138 | 38.8 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,004 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pheobe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pheobe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pheobe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pheobe, and how old are they?
An estimated 724 Americans named Pheobe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 714 people named Pheobe (712 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 671 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,147 babies since 1880, Pheobe is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 38 babies (42%), again the second 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 Pheobe
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.
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