How would you pronounce Phyllis?

[PoemBeatrice]

I like the meaning of foliage and I pronounce it FILL-iss, therefore I like the name. Is that correct. I also love Felicity with nickname Fliss and Lissy.

Phillipa is much nicer 👌

an icon.

a trend setter.

she'd be an insta kween if she were alive today.

I knew a few of these growing up.
Always FILL-iss. Often called Phil, as was the Philomena that I knew in adulthood.

If Daphne can make a comeback then maybe Phyllis can too?
Along the names with Greek PH lines: Ophelia sounds more current and Persephone is a bit different to the Penelope trend.

It sounds far too much like syphilis.

Our dinner lady was a Phyllis
. All she ever heard was Phyllis a glass of water..

Felicity is a better option..

My nanna's name was Phyllis (I think born circa 1922), and as amazing and wonderful and beautiful as she was please don't saddle your child with this name.

i know a Philippa thats known as Phyl.
could also be Pippa- but she says Pippa isnt grown up name

I knew an old lady one, she lived to be v old... Fill-iss was how she said it, not short for anything.

It seems in the same group as Mabel and Maeve to me, and will Philippa so popular I don't see why Phyllis won't come back. I think it's fine.

To rhyme with the STI.

Felicity is sparky, I like it!

I love it. If I have a DD it's top of my list. Whenever I say that the name ends up being mega popular within 5 years.

Coronation Street vibes here too....

Some old lady names stay old lady names....

I had a school friend called Phyllis pronounced fill is.

Phyllis is awful, sorry. Felicity is so much nicer.

Felicity is so much nicer. Really love that name

Phyllis is lovely, nothing like syphilis. Much nicer and less common than felicity (is that irony? I’m never sure)

I second the syphillis comment. That was my first thought 😂😂

I'd say FILL-iss. I've literally never heard any other way to pronounce it. I've known a few elderly women with this name, but nobody younger.

I would rather Felicity or Philippa for the reasons above.

My Dneice was a Phillipa for about a week until her siblings kept calling her Flipper and it made my sister change her mind and rename her.

Fill iss

I love Phyllis, my wonderful grandmother's name, she was Phyl for short, lived to be 100, and was a glorious woman. I think it's fab.

And I'm Philippa, which I hated as a child, and love now. I shortened to Pippa as a kid, but am Pip and Philippa now. I know you're not considering it but someone mentioned and I think it's a good name!

My nana was called Phyllis. I really can’t imagine it used for children now, although you could start a trend.

Reminds me of syphilis

FILL-is.

My great aunt was a Phyllis, known as Phyl.