Phebe

Where Phebe comes from

Phebe hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #435 among girls — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #352
    25 babies named Phebe — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.