Phoebe

Lovely name. My Great Grandmother was a Phoebe.

As for the Friends connection - I personally think it has passed now. People can associate any name with anything/anyone subjectively, though.

Love this response 👏

I’ve only known wonderful Phoebes. It’s a gorgeous but beware it’s comedy hour if the French try to say it. So long as you don’t spend significant time there then it’s great!

Love the name Phoebe! My sons GF is a Phoebe - and she’s a lovely girl

For what it's worth, I personally think Phoebe is a lovely name, timeless and classy. Anyone who thinks it didn't pre-date the show Friends is showing their ignorance. There are a couple of Phoebes in baby groups we attend and I always think it sounds pretty and sounds equally good for a child or adult.
However, my top baby naming tip, which I always offer on threads like this and which, I am aware, undermines the entire point of this forum and also renders my own comment pointless, is to never canvas strangers on the internet for advice on your putative name choices!
You will never get objective, useful advice this way. As exemplified on this thread, what you will actually receive are personal and arbitrary comments from posters whose dislike of the name you are suggesting will be entirely subjective and often irrational. It really does not matter if internet commenters you will never meet like the name, all that matters is that you like it. There is absolutely no name which you could suggest on here which everyone would like. People bring their own individual prejudices to conversations like this and will shoot down names for reasons as personal as having been to school with someone with the name in question who they didn't like or that it reminds them of something entirely unrelated.
My advice goes double for asking any friends and family for name feedback. Pick the name and then present it as a fait accomplis when your beautiful baby has arrived. People are usually too polite to do anything but smile and compliment the name once it's a done deal. Mention your name choices before this point and everyone will stick their oar in. Wishing you and your family all the best for the wonderful new arrival!

Love Deebs. Mine sometimes gets her name lengthened to Phoebebeeberbee (it’s an old book Phoebe and the hot water bottles that I used to own.)

I don't get the feeble connection. It's a proper name, having a bit of a moment. I like it.

@TheGriffleI also have a fiery red head. All the family know her as Fiesty Phoebe. I only picked the name as a random child touched my bump and called it Phoebe, and I thought “oh, that’s nice”. She’s a Phoebe Esther after my great gran.

At home she’s affectionally known as Deebs. School it’s Feebz. Mostly though it’s just Phoebe.

Lovely name

I like both names (especially the Welsh Alys) and they work well together. Not keen on Feebs as the shortform though.

Love it and Phoebe Alys is beautiful

I have a Phoebe and still love it. She’s a fiery red head, far from feeble and that association never crossed my mind. I had plans to call her Bea, never happened and turns out I hate Phoebs as well, don’t mind others calling her it but not something I tend to do, she’s always just Phoebe to me.

See that just makes me think of the heebie jeebies!

I work with a phoebe and adore her
Shes sassy and takes no crap so I always think of her when the name comes up
She does get 'pheebs' a lot (mainly from me!)
It's a gorgeous name-shes one of 3 that I know (the other two are a lot younger)
I adore alice/alys-i named my own dd after my great granny alice and think it's a wonderful,classic name

Care to share your kids names so I can tell you how awful they are?

I MUCH prefer Hebe. More unusual too which is nice.

Rude

I have a Phoebe, “Pheeb”
or “Pheebs” now she’s a teenager. No regrets, I still love it, it suits any age. My great gran was also a Phoebe who lived to the grand old age of 100.

I love the name Phoebe, most of the Phoebe's I know are the opposite of feeble and I've never made the connection.

It's a beautiful name, in Greek mythology Phoebe was a goddess associated with the moon and intellect.

Personally I don't like Phoebe as I agree with previous posters, it reminds me of 'feeble', its a bit of a wet, weak name.

Phoebe is a great name. Kids born in 2026 aren't going to think of Phoebe Buffay so not sure what your husband is worried about.