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Around the world, Phillis (Phillis
, פיליס
, Филлис
) is quite a rare girly first name. The first name Phillis is habitual in the United States, where it is a rare feminine name, South Africa, where it is a rare primarily female, but very seldom masculine name, and Hong Kong, where it is a rare feminine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in the United States, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Very seldom, Phillis is the last name as well as the forename.
Phillis is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Phileas Fogg , the character created by Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days; Phyllis Kroll , the fictional character from the television series The L Word; Phyllis Summers , the soap opera character, The Young and the Restless; Phyllis Lindstrom , the Fictional character from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis Vance , the fictional character from The Office (US), among other works.