Hebe
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Hebe (goddess of youth)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eβe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hebe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 8.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 180K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Pronounced ‘hee-bee’: from a Greek name, a feminine form of the adjective hébos ‘young’. This was borne in Greek mythology by a minor goddess who was a personification of youth. She was a daughter of Zeus and the wife of Hephaistos; it was her duty to act as cupbearer to the gods. The name was taken up in England in the late r9th century, but it has fallen out of fashion again.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
How Hebe is read(measured from records)
Hebe is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish86%
Greek hēbē, ‘youth’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese5.3%
Hebe (goddess of youth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hebe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #632 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 5 | Hebe | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,176 | 1 in 180K | 1.6K | Hebe | 73 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Hebe | 7 |
| US United States | — | 273 | 1 in 1.2M | 269 | Hebe | 78 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 690K | — | Hebe | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 147 | 1 in 118K | 131 | — | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | #716 | 125 | 1 in 27K | 125 | Hebe | 13 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Hebe | 8 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hebe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pronounced ‘hee-bee’: from a Greek name, a feminine form of the adjective hébos ‘young’. This was borne in Greek mythology by a minor goddess who was a personification of youth. She was a daughter of Zeus and the wife of Hephaistos; it was her duty to act as cupbearer to the gods. The name was taken up in England in the late r9th century, but it has fallen out of fashion again.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Greek goddess of youth
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Hebei [Hopeh]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, prov, China
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hebe Spaullb. 1893GBBritish writer (1893–1974)
- Hebe Charlotte Kohlbruggeb. 1914NLDutch theologian
- Hebe Donayb. 1926ARArgentinian actor
- Hebe Clementib. 1926ARhistorian and professor from Argentina
- Hebe D. Gayb. 1927ARArgentine professor and scientist
- Hebe de Bonafinib. 1928ARArgentine human rights activist
- Hebe Camargob. 1929BRBrazilian recording artist, television host, actress and singer (1929–2012)
- Hebe Almeida de Gargiulob. 1932ARArgentine writer
- Hebe Uhartb. 1936ARArgentinian writer (1936-2018)
- Hebe Vessurib. 1942ARArgentinian anthropologist, professor and writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.6K | #6,940 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.5K | #3,480 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #7,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 269 | #31,394 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 131 | #4,696 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 125 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 114 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 104 | #18,130 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 101 | #7,974 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #7,412 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Hebe come from?
- Pronounced ‘hee-bee’: from a Greek name, a feminine form of the adjective hébos ‘young’. This was borne in Greek mythology by a minor goddess who was a personification of youth. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Hebe?
- A machine transcription gives /eβe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Hebe a male or female name?
- Hebe is a female 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.
- What does the name Hebe mean?
- In Portuguese, Hebe (goddess of youth)
- In which country does Hebe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Hebe in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hebe.
- How common is the name Hebe?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,176 people named Hebe in 2022, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.
- How common is Hebe compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Hebe is the 632nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hebe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hebeThe 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, “Hebe” — the 632nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.