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Meaning & Origins
Name of a minor character in Greek mythology who killed herself for love and was transformed into an almond tree; the Greek word phyllis means ‘foliage’, so clearly her name doomed her from the start.
| 203rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
English and Scottish: occupational name for a tailor, from Old French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example Schneider, Szabó, and Portnov.
| 12th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Phylliss, Phyliss, Phylis, Phylicia, Phyllys, Phylisha, Phylls, Phyllisa, Phylecia, Phyliis
Tayler, Tayloe, Tailor, Teyler, Taylo, Taylore, Taylar, Taylan, Talluri, Toylor
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