60%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Yiddish (Rare) Scripts פֿייװיש (Yiddish) פייבישׁ (Hebrew) Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Yiddish form of Phoebus, apparently used as a translation of Shimshon (see Samson) [1] . Related NamesFamily Tree ·Details Rootphoibos VariantFeivush DiminutivesFayvel, Feivel Other Languages & CulturesPhoibos (Ancient Greek) Phoebus, Phoibos (Greek Mythology) Sources & ReferencesShow Inline Numbers Hide Inline Numbers Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 114. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Entry updated May 26, 2026
