Entry № 8140 · English origin

Phylicia Phylicia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ fih-LISH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Happy / lucky (Phylicia Rashad, first Black Best Actress Tony)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "happy / lucky (phylicia rashad, first black best actress tony)".

Phylicia is a 20th-century American variant of Felicia — from the Latin felicia (happy, fortunate). Dean of the Chadwick A. Her younger sister is choreographer Debbie Allen (Fame).

Happy / lucky.

The name in its native script.

Phylicia
Transliteration
Phylicia
Pronunciation
/ fɪˈlɪʃ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Phylicia stands.

Phylicia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Phylicias before her.

Real people
Phylicia Rashad
American Tony-winning actress.
born 1948
In fiction
Clair Huxtable
The Cosby Show.
1984

Names connected to Phylicia.

The number behind Phylicia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Phylicia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.