Phillips: the surname's root, sound and line

Root

son of "phillip" — root not confirmed

The root itself we could not confirm. We will not invent one.

Suffix

-s — son of.

Sound

2 syllables · even

Two syllables — step and answer. The steadiest rhythm there is: a heartbeat. A hard entry: the first sound strikes, then the name lets go.

Letters

Sitting whole inside: hill

Against the corpus

Harder than 50% of the 315 surnames in the corpus. Longer than 12% of them: 2 syllables.

Arithmetic over our own corpus, not an opinion: every number here can be recomputed from the string itself.

A letter with a history

Inside this surname stands I. Iota is the narrowest letter in Greek — a single stroke of the pen — and that is why an iota still means the smallest possible amount. The whole story of this letter →

Nearby

Formed the same way: son of.

• Adams — man, made of earth
• Anderson — from Andrew — manly
• Andrews — son of
• Barnes — son of
• Brooks — a brook
• Burns — son of

Surnames ending in -son · All English surnames

Shadow

A way of being through balance: neither hurry nor delay.