Amaryllis

Greek

"to sparkle"

Amaryllis Origin and Meaning

The name Amaryllis is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "to sparkle".

If you love both unique baby names and flower names for girls, Amaryllis might be a perfect choice for you.

A showier flower name than Lily, but in the same botanical family, Amaryllis is not as outre as it might at first sound. It was used in Greek poetry as the appellation of pure pastoral beauties; Amaryllis is the heroine of Virgil's epic poem Ecologues, after whom the flower was named.

Other references are characters in the George Bernard Shaw play Back to Methuselah and The Music Man. James Bond-creator Ian Fleming had a half sister named Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming, who was a noted British cellist.

Amaryllis Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 404 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Amaryllis

• 404 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Amaryllis

• Amaryllis Marie Louise Fleming, British cellist
• Amaryllis Virginia Garnett English actress and diarist; granddaughter of Vanessa Bell and grand,niece of Virginia Woolf.
• Amaryllis Knight American co,founder of Falcon Motorcycles
• Amaryllis Collymore Afro,Barbadian slave who gained her freedom from her relationship with a white man
• Amaryllis Fox wife of political icon Robert F. Kennedy III
• Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther Gough,Calthorpe , daughter,in,law of Sir Richard Branson and one time love interest of Prince William

The name Amaryllis in Pop Culture

• Amaryllis character in "The Music Man"
• Amaryllis Iden artistic heroine of Amaryllis at the Fair (1887) by Richard Jefferies
• Amaryllis character in movie "Public Enemies" played by Alyssa Milano
• "Amaryllis " song and album by band Shinedown
• "Cruda Amarilli " song by Claudio Monteverdi (1605)
• Amaryllis of Exile character in "The Penumbra Podcast"