Phylicia

Where Phylicia comes from

Phylicia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    Phylicia Rashad born
    American actress
  2. 1968
    First appearance
    #7,016 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1987
    Phylicia George born
    Canadian hurdler
  4. 1987
    Peak, #651
    289 babies named Phylicia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,284.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Phylicia Rashad · American actress, born 1948
  • Phylicia George · Canadian hurdler, born 1987
  • Phylicia Whitney · German journalist and public speaker, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.