Phebe

Where Phebe comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Phebe.

  • Vowel-ended
Phebe through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #435 among girls, with 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #352
    25 babies named Phebe, its best rank.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #686.
  4. 1957
    Phebe Novakovic born
    American businesswoman and former intelligence officer
  5. 1960
    Phebe Hemphill born
    American sculptor
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Phebe Novakovic · American businesswoman and former intelligence officer, born 1957
  • Phebe Hemphill · American sculptor, born 1960
  • Phebe Bekker · British ice dancer, born 2005
  • Phebe Fjellström · Swedish ethnologist, 1924–2007
  • Phebe Cramer · American psychologist, 1935–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.