Dilys
DILL-is
Welsh
"genuine, steadfast, true"
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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 PowellEnglish journalist and film critic
- Dilys Bennett LaingAnglo,American poet
- Dilys LayeEnglish actress
- Dilys ElwynEdwards, Welsh composer
- Dilys HamlettEnglish actress
- Dilys BreeseWelsh ornithologist and TV producer
- Dilys WatlingEnglish actress
- Dilys RoseScottish 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 Pritchardmurder victim in Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel "How Green Was My Valley"
- Dilyscharacter in Barbara Cartland's book "Love Climbs In"
- Dilys Derwentformer headmistress of Hogwarts in "Harry Potter"