Phoibos
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Greek Phoibos Apollon, a god name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Phoibos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cyprus than in any other country.
- CYCyprus1 in 2.7Kas Φοιβος(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 64Kas Foivos
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.3Mas Foivos
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Phoibos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cyprus (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
474 named Φοιβος, 2011
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, as Φοιβος
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Foivos in GR Greece, CY Cyprus, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Fivos in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Greek Phoibos Apollon, a god name.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Phoibos counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CY Cyprus | 474as Φοιβος | 1 in 2.7K | 474 | Foivos | 16 |
| GR Greece | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 6 | Foivos | 47 |
| US United States | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 18M | 336 | Fivos | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | — | Foivos | 19 |
| MA Morocco | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Foivos | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Foivos | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Foivos | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 3 | — | 1 |
474 people counted by CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census), 2011, counting the spelling φοιβος. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phoibos mean, and where does it come from?
- from Greek Phoibos Apollon, a god name. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Phoibos a male or female name?
- Phoibos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Phoibos have the most bearers?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted about 474 people named Φοιβος, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Phoibos most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Phoibos itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Cyprus's: the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people named Φοιβος.
- How common is the name Phoibos?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 474 people named Φοιβος in 2011, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Phoibos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phoibosThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phoibos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.