Given name & surname
Phillis
Phillis is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Phillis is a variant of Phyllis. An origin associated with Phyllis is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Phillis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,683
- 6 boys · 3,677 girls
- Most popular year
- 1949
- 118 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 118 in 1949. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,783 as a first name in 2020; 1,016 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Phillis’s family of names
Phillis has a related form in Phyllis.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Phillis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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