Jill

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: Dutch

Meaning

Jill is an English feminine given name, often a short form of the name Gillian or Jillian, which in turn originated as a Middle English variant of Juliana. Jill was such a common name that it had an everygirl quality, as in the 15th century English nursery rhyme Jack and Jill.

From Wikipedia

Jill first appears in the data in 1906 and has been recorded in 114 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 1966 with 7,870 babies (rank #49 that year). In 2024 it was given to 19 girls (rank #6,246). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Jill

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Jill yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

208,553
Total babies (all years)
114
Years in the data
7,870
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19065#2,082
19106#2,277
19125#3,191
19135#3,426
19145#3,899
19155#4,598
19176#4,337
19186#4,553
191915#2,320
192014#2,518
192111#3,038
192215#2,429
192320#1,982
192417#2,254
192517#2,239
192634#1,373
192738#1,288
192836#1,278
192954#987
193058#964
193172#799
193284#736
1933112#614
1934149#532
1935151#523
1936180#478
1937184#481
1938265#414
1939323#362
1940390#322
1941490#294
1942663#269
1943811#237
19441,037#194
19451,158#177
19461,624#166
19471,859#156
19481,886#150
19491,947#152
19502,196#142
19512,566#130
19523,052#118
19533,389#114
19543,968#107
19554,222#102
19564,576#101
19574,729#100
19584,808#98
19595,554#86
19606,018#76
19616,137#74
19626,170#72
19636,301#68
19647,242#61
19657,821#51
19667,870#49
19677,399#50
19687,520#46
19696,666#51
19706,806#52
19715,724#59
19724,825#62
19734,538#62
19745,060#58
19755,728#46
19765,283#52
19776,238#41
19785,677#46
19795,192#52
19804,558#66
19813,857#78
19823,271#89
19832,787#98
19842,326#120
19852,039#143
19861,772#159
19871,409#197
19881,333#197
19891,057#255
1990835#329
1991719#357
1992647#397
1993546#459
1994460#534
1995408#565
1996343#650
1997314#690
1998263#809
1999213#972
2000215#988
2001186#1,128
2002140#1,381
2003153#1,336
2004120#1,622
2005113#1,747
2006142#1,541
200793#2,155
200891#2,195
200982#2,363
201071#2,573
201156#3,031
201243#3,676
201346#3,426
201452#3,160
201537#4,029
201632#4,471
201743#3,583
201823#5,532
201922#5,690
202018#6,460
202120#6,045
202231#4,521
202315#7,425
202419#6,246