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Phoebe

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Latin form of the Greek name Φοιβη (Phoibe)

Greek φοιβος (phoibos) = 'bright', 'shining', 'pure' [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Bibe ♀
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 Greenlandic
Biibi ♀
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 Greenlandic
Febe ♀
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 Finish Norwegian Swedish
Föbe ♀
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Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Føbe ♀
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 Danish Greenlandic Norwegian
Phebe ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Swedish
Phoebe ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

See also Febína

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Phoebe
Genitive: Phoebes
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Phoebe
Genitive: Phoeben
Partitive: Phoebeä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Phoebe
Genitive: Phoebes
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Phoebe
Genitive: Phoebes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Greek Mythology

  • Phoebe is a Titaness associated with the moon

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
116 178 116 178 0 0
Denmark Denmark[6]
78
n.a.
 78
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 58
n.a.
 58 0 0
Iceland Iceland[8]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
n.a.
n.a.
 51
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Phoebe.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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