as a First Name
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 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 298,516
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 316,828
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Phyllis per capita
- 1929
- marked the height of its popularity
99.99%
0.01%
81%
55+
55+
19%
30-54
30-54
0.33%
13-29
13-29
0.04%
0-12
0-12
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