Dilys

DILL-is

Welsh

"genuine, steadfast, true"

Dilys Origin and Meaning

The name Dilys is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "genuine, steadfast, true".

Common in Wales, but would really stand out here. One of the middle names of Stella McCartney's daughter Reiley; Dilys Powell was a well-known British film critic, Professor Dilys Derwent a Harry Potter character., a witch who worked as a Healer at St. Mungo's Hospital, and was a celebrated Headmistress of Hogwarts School..

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Famous People Named Dilys

• (Elizabeth) Dilys Powell English journalist and film critic
• Dilys Bennett Laing Anglo,American poet
• Dilys Laye English actress
• Dilys Elwyn Edwards, Welsh composer
• Dilys Hamlett English actress
• Dilys Breese Welsh ornithologist and TV producer
• Dilys Watling English actress
• Dilys Rose Scottish poet and fiction writer
• Reiley Dilys Stella Willis (b. 2010) daughter of designer Stella McCartney and Alasdhair Willis

The name Dilys in Pop Culture

• Dilys Pritchard murder victim in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel "How Green Was My Valley"
• Dilys character in Barbara Cartland's book "Love Climbs In"
• Dilys Derwent former headmistress of Hogwarts in "Harry Potter"