Phoebe
Phoebe stands at #157 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 43,658 bearers and counting.
Phoebe’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Phoebe, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Phoebe since 1880
Phoebe is at its all-time peak right now: #157 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Phoebe is most common
The state that gives Phoebe most often, per girls born there, is Vermont (1.23% in 2025); District of Columbia and Alaska are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Phoebe
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Piper
#155 in 2025
Presley
#225 in 2025
Palmer
#232 in 2025
Parker
#102 in 2025
Paisley
#67 in 2025
Colter
#157 in 2025
Arya
#158 in 2025
Jaxson
#156 in 2025
Browse: names starting with P · all names
About Phoebe
Where does Phoebe rank right now?
Phoebe stands at #157 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Phoebe have a meaning on record?
Phoebe postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Which names sit near Phoebe?
The recipe puts Piper first, then Palmer, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
Get Phoebe’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Phoebe earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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