Phoebe Forename
Approximately 89,930 people bear this name
Phoebe Forename Definition:
A female name. Greek Φοίβη, ‘the shining one’, an epithet of Artemis. St Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans, recommends ‘Phoebe our sister', and the name came into use in England after the Reformation; the earliest example noted is in 1568.
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| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 100% | 16,903 | 1:2,740 | 486 |
| United States | 100% | 14,820 | 1:24,463 | 1,846 |
| Philippines | 98% | 12,011 | 1:8,826 | 1,238 |
| Uganda | 100% | 11,542 | 1:3,549 | 445 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 7,926 | 1:22,403 | 2,201 |
| England | 100% | 4,348 | 1:12,788 | 945 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 2,609 | 1:5,912 | 883 |
| Australia | - | 2,181 | 1:6,262 | 746 |
| Rwanda | - | 2,175 | 1:5,228 | 928 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,798 | 1:15,009 | 1,261 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1,481 | 1:11,555 | 1,234 |
| China | - | 1,414 | 1:966,093 | 33,656 |
| Canada | 100% | 1,185 | 1:27,961 | 2,279 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 1,075 | 1:68,677 | 4,045 |
| South Africa | 100% | 1,021 | 1:53,411 | 5,397 |
| Egypt | 100% | 976 | 1:94,161 | 4,390 |
| Israel | 96% | 822 | 1:10,223 | 1,290 |
| Hong Kong | - | 795 | 1:9,752 | 930 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 436 | 1:121,074 | 6,266 |
| Zambia | - | 419 | 1:37,840 | 2,628 |
| New Zealand | - | 415 | 1:10,930 | 1,127 |
| Malaysia | 95% | 406 | 1:75,000 | 5,671 |
| Bangladesh | - | 367 | 1:434,500 | 16,631 |
| Thailand | 100% | 260 | 1:269,484 | 15,877 |
| Wales | 100% | 245 | 1:12,630 | 907 |
| Singapore | 100% | 218 | 1:28,840 | 5,829 |
| Scotland | 100% | 157 | 1:34,079 | 1,277 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 141 | 1:119,873 | 5,714 |
| Haiti | 100% | 128 | 1:83,804 | 4,963 |
| Germany | 100% | 123 | 1:785,999 | 6,839 |
| Jamaica | - | 112 | 1:25,743 | 1,906 |
| Qatar | 92% | 102 | 1:23,231 | 3,339 |
| India | 100% | 98 | 1:12,396,714 | 345,800 |
| France | 100% | 82 | 1:810,614 | 6,975 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 73 | 1:325,612 | 22,880 |
| Benin | 100% | 56 | 1:188,854 | 9,163 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 54 | 1:150,969 | 13,227 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 43 | 1:242,588 | 9,234 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 43 | 1:536,650 | 19,525 |
| Spain | 100% | 42 | 1:1,107,856 | 9,097 |
| Sweden | 100% | 41 | 1:240,437 | 7,877 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 39 | 1:47,260 | 1,199 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 39 | 1:554,115 | 17,419 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 38 | 1:6,788,518 | 244,640 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 34 | 1:210,353 | 13,097 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 33 | 1:556,954 | 18,390 |
| Botswana | 100% | 32 | 1:68,264 | 6,262 |
| Vietnam | - | 31 | 1:2,987,842 | 3,334 |
| Belgium | 100% | 30 | 1:383,001 | 6,933 |
| Brazil | 100% | 30 | 1:7,141,205 | 98,999 |
| Greece | - | 30 | 1:364,485 | 5,634 |
| Kuwait | - | 28 | 1:135,188 | 8,745 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 25 | 1:54,457 | 4,742 |
| Macau | - | 24 | 1:25,342 | 410 |
| Denmark | - | 22 | 1:256,795 | 5,179 |
| Ireland | 100% | 19 | 1:244,396 | 4,129 |
| South Korea | - | 19 | 1:291,812 | 9,421 |
| Italy | 100% | 17 | 1:3,591,888 | 20,165 |
| Mozambique | - | 16 | 1:1,702,710 | 1,919 |
| Liberia | 100% | 15 | 1:294,137 | 9,351 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 15 | 1:547,566 | 8,396 |
| Norway | 100% | 14 | 1:366,595 | 7,406 |
| Japan | - | 12 | 1:10,665,505 | 35,725 |
| Czechia | 100% | 11 | 1:968,742 | 3,396 |
| Congo | 100% | 10 | 1:500,920 | 8,695 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 10 | 1:87,108 | 2,498 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 9 | 1:11,044 | 1,733 |
| Estonia | - | 9 | 1:146,153 | 5,307 |
| Poland | 100% | 9 | 1:4,225,235 | 4,388 |
| Mexico | 100% | 8 | 1:15,518,053 | 39,880 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 8 | 1:13,718 | 1,590 |
| Guam | - | 7 | 1:22,949 | 2,164 |
| Jersey | 100% | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 7 | 1:4,314,556 | 60,709 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Austria | - | 6 | 1:1,419,034 | 8,656 |
| Chile | 100% | 6 | 1:2,934,535 | 17,145 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 6 | 1:9,144 | 1,176 |
| Iceland | - | 5 | 1:73,203 | 3,413 |
| Argentina | 100% | 4 | 1:10,693,311 | 19,797 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 4 | 1:1,191,987 | 12,292 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 3 | 1:1,047 | 226 |
| Guyana | - | 3 | 1:254,421 | 14,062 |
| Hungary | 100% | 3 | 1:3,263,924 | 4,413 |
| Russia | - | 3 | 1:48,077,901 | 98,779 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Peru | 100% | 2 | 1:15,895,727 | 74,652 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 2 | 1:290,478 | 6,813 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Angola | - | 1 | 1:26,966,606 | 7,835 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Bahrain | - | 1 | 1:1,348,673 | 7,854 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belarus | - | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Ecuador | - | 1 | 1:17,726,919 | 31,775 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Finland | 50% | 1 | 1:5,483,183 | 25,487 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Grenada | 100% | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Honduras | - | 1 | 1:8,817,467 | 33,018 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kazakhstan | - | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Monaco | - | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Panama | - | 1 | 1:3,906,557 | 40,800 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
| Suriname | 100% | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turkey | 100% | 1 | 1:77,801,709 | 91,051 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Phoebé (14), Phoebè (5), Phoébe (2), Phoébé (2) & Phoèbè (1) are calculated separately.
Phoebe (1,413) may also be a surname.
Phoebe Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Greek Φοίβη, ‘the shining one’, an epithet of Artemis. St Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans, recommends ‘Phoebe our sister', and the name came into use in England after the Reformation; the earliest example noted is in 1568. Phebe or Phoebe was fairly common in the 17th C, and has remained in use until the present day.
Properly PHŒBE. As Phoebus is the sun-god (Apollo), so Phoebe is the moon-goddess (Artemis, Latin Diana); they are the m. and f. of the Greek adjective for ‘radiant’ or ‘bright’, deriving from (phōs), ‘light’ (cf. phosphorus, ‘that which brings light’). As Charlotte Yonge briefly summarises it, ‘Phœbe was a good deal in use among the women of Greek birth in the early Roman empire; and “Phœbe, our sister,” the deaconess of Cenchrea, is commended by St. Paul to the Romans; but she has had few namesakes, except in England; the Italian Febe only being used as a synonym for the moon.’
Meaning: radiant.
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