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Phyllis or Phillis is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning foliage. Phyllis is a minor figure in Greek mythology who killed herself in despair when Demophon of Athens did not return to her and who was transformed into an almond tree by the gods. Phillida, Phyllicia, and Phyllida are all variants of the name.




Usage


The name has been in use since the 1600s when, often spelled Phillis, it was used by English poets John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Matthew Prior. African-born American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), who was captured and enslaved in the United States and was later freed, was named Phillis by her enslavers after the slave ship on which she arrived. Phillis was a popular name for women among the population of enslaved women in the United States. In the spelling Phyllis, the name was popularized in the late 1800s after it was used by bestselling popular Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford for the heroine of her 1877 romantic novel Phyllis, the Duchess. The name Phyllis was among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in the United States in 1880 and increased in use in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The popularity of American actress Phyllis Haver (1899–1960), also raised the profile of the name. Phyllis was among the top 100 names for American girls by 1915 and peaked in popularity in 1929 as the 24th most popular name for American girls. It remained among the top 1,000 names for American girls until 1950 and then declined in use.
The name was also at its most popular in the Anglosphere, in countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, in the first part of the 20th century.




People


Phyllis Ackerman (1893–1977), American art historian, interior designer and author
Phyllis Avery (1922–2011), American actress
Phyllis Barber (born 1943), American writer
Phyllis Bartholomew (1914–2002), English long jumper
Phyllis Drummond Bethune (née Sharpe, 1899–1982), New Zealand artist
Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), American architect
Phyllis Bramson (born 1941), American artist
Phyllis Brooks (1915–1995), American actress and model
Phyllis Calvert (1915–2002), British actress
Phyllis Chesler (born 1940), American writer, psychotherapist, and professor
Phyllis M. Christian (born 1956), Ghanaian lawyer and consultant
Phyllis Cilento (1894–1987), Australian doctor and medical journalist
Phyllis Clare (1905–1947), British actress
Phyllis Coates (born 1927), American actress
Phyllis Dare (1890–1975), English actress and singer
Phyllis Worthy Dawkins (born 1953), American academic administrator
Phyllis Diller (1917–2012), American actress/comedian
Phyllis Dillon (1944–2004), Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer
Phyllis Eisenstein (1946–2020), American writer
Phyllis Gardner (born 1950), American physician and professor
Phyllis George (1949–2020), American businesswoman, actress, and sportscaster
Phyllis Gotlieb (1926–2009), Canadian writer
Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), American jazz singer
Phylis Lee Isley, birth name of Jennifer Jones (1919–2009), American film actress
P. D. James (1920–2014), English crime fiction writer
Phyllis Logan (born 1956), Scottish actress
Phyllis Love (1925–2011), American actress
Phyllis Nagy (born 1962), American screenwriter/director
Phyllis Ndlovu (died 2022), Zimbabwean politician
Phyllis Newman (1933–2019), American actress
Phyllis Nicol (1908–1999), British athlete
Phyllis Pearsall (1906–1996), British creator of the A to Z map of London
Phyllis Quek (born 1972), Malaysian-based Singaporean actress
Phyllis Reeve (born 1938), librarian and marina operator,
Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016), American writer and conservative activist
Phyllis Smith (born 1951), American actress
Phyllis Somerville (1943–2020), American actress
Phyllis Taloikwai, senior government official in the Solomon Islands
Phyllis Thaxter (1919–2012), American actress
Phyllis The Housewife, a female wrestler from Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Phyllis Webstad (born 1967), Canadian author and activist
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), first African-American published poet.
Phyllis A. Whitney (1903–2008), American mystery writer




Mythological and legendary characters


The title character of the tale of Phyllis and Aristotle in medieval legend
Phyllis (mythology), wife of Demophon, king of Athens
Phyllis (river god)
Phyllis, consort of Ereuthalion
Phyllis, mother of the Trojan Alcaeus




Fictional characters


Phyllis Dietrichson, in James Cain's novella Double Indemnity and two film adaptations
Phyllis Lindstrom, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis, a 1970s TV spin-off, played by Cloris Leachman.
Phyllis Pearce, a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Jill Summers.
Phyllis Summers Newman, on The Young and the Restless
Phyllis Vance (née Lapin), on The Office played by Phyllis Smith.
Phyllis (Passions), a minor character on Passions




Notes

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Phyllis Schlafly
• Phyllis Dixey
• Phyllis Dare
• Phyllis Rankin
• Phyllis Konstam
• Phyllis Coates
• Phyllis Hodgkinson
• Phyllis Gordon
• Phyllis Haver
• Phyllis Somerville
• Phyllis
• Phyllis Schlafly
• Phyllis Hyman
• Phyllis Summers
• Phyllis Logan
• Fanny Cradock
• Phyllis Fraser
• Phyllis Smith
• Phyllis Diller
• Fair Phyllis