Phibba

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Girl · Akan, through English

Phibba

Say it: FIB-ah

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Meaning

An English-spelled form of the Akan day name Afua, given to a girl born on Friday.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Found in 18th-century Jamaican and North American slave records, sometimes merged with the classical name Phoebe.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

  1. The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
  2. The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837

Used by

African AmericanCaribbean

The family of the name

Other spellings: Phibbah, Fiba

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Where this comes from

  • Colonial records of the Americas

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