Philis
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/philis/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Philis is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Kenya. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Philis or from Greek.
- KEKenya
- USUnited States
- ZMZambia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from French Philis or from Greek.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 321 | #26,960 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 21 | #26,960 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1942 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1953 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1955 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 8 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Philis a male or female name?
- Philis is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Philis mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Philis or from Greek. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Philis?
- In the etymology graph, Phyllis, Filiz and PhyLiss are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Philis?
- In Swahili /philis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Philis have the most bearers?
- Philis is most frequently recorded in Kenya.
What do you want to know about Philis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/philisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Philis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.