Given name & surname
Febe
“a bright woman”
Febe is used as a given name and a surname. One Polish interpretation is “a bright woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Polish interpretation is “a bright woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Polish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Febe through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 292
- 0 boys · 292 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #9,665 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −20%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,665 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 829 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Febe’s family of names
In Italian usage, Febe has a conventional equivalent in the English form Phoebe. Febe has a related form in Feby. Febe has a related form in Febea.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Febe
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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