51%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Literature Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Combination of Old French bele "beautiful" and the name Phoebe. This name was first used by Edmund Spenser in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590). People think this name isRate·Details classic formal upper class natural refined strange complex nerdy Categories beautiful, beauty, combinations, Edmund Spenser characters, invented, light, literature, moon, purity