Phoebe Girl Name

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The name Phoebe is of Greek origin, and means shining. The table below indicates the number of times the name Phoebe has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Phoebe**
Use of the Name Phoebe for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
16,732	7,906	6,938	5,639	3,476	1,422	737

The table below indicates the number of times the name Phoebe has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Phoebe**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	217	50
1881	233	46
1882	220	62
1883	222	66
1884	219	75
1885	235	72
1886	231	80
1887	267	63
1888	294	65
1889	298	67
1890	289	74
1891	270	84
1892	287	88
1893	292	86
1894	298	85
1895	307	90
1896	285	106
1897	346	72
1898	348	79
1899	328	84
1900	396	71
1901	409	54
1902	339	87
1903	386	68
1904	406	63
1905	365	87
1906	470	53
1907	393	82
1908	415	76
1909	414	78
1910	417	90
1911	437	87
1912	465	105
1913	479	112
1914	396	176
1915	433	198
1916	452	198
1917	426	227
1918	457	215
1919	480	193
1920	457	220
1921	500	198
1922	499	194
1923	500	193
1924	502	198
1925	507	192
1926	560	162
1927	546	168
1928	519	178
1929	565	147
1930	534	163
1931	550	144
1932	543	145
1933	532	143
1934	573	127
1935	573	127
1936	553	139
1937	614	121
1938	558	151
1939	563	143
1940	567	150
1941	563	154
1942	664	129
1943	674	127
1944	716	112
1945	746	101
1946	766	116
1947	767	126
1948	854	105
1949	857	107
1950	894	99
1951	861	109
1952	940	98
1953	978	96
1954	827	130
1955	894	120
1956	969	109
1957
1958	990	110
1959	979	117
1960
1961	995	119
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966	997	106
1967	871	137
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977	931	150
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989	946	188
1990	871	224
1991	860	233
1992	980	194
1993	902	213
1994	817	247
1995	583	394
1996	542	432
1997	559	418
1998	607	396
1999	494	523
2000	439	641
2001	387	749
2002	436	664
2003	436	685
2004	407	737
Totals:		16,732		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Phoebe as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Phoebe appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 99 times during the last 125 years.

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