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 1953 and has been recorded in 61 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2014 with 280 babies (rank #42 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. 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 โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

5,517
Total babies (all years)
61
Years in the data
280
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19531#1,142
19541#1,166
19551#1,176
19561#1,193
19571#1,207
19581#1,233
19601#1,278
19611#1,271
19621#1,302
19631#1,320
19641#1,314
19651#1,351
19661#1,372
19671#1,392
19682#1,243
19692#1,244
19703#1,095
19713#1,105
19729#749
19736#867
197410#674
197528#380
197633#344
197732#352
197842#303
197948#277
198047#287
198153#267
198253#258
198337#322
198432#364
198570#218
198654#266
198768#230
198874#217
1989104#163
1990143#128
1991153#124
1992139#129
1993157#115
1994141#120
1995128#125
1996124#129
1997139#109
1998152#103
1999163#103
2000169#102
2001162#102
2002189#81
2003253#63
2004241#63
2005226#62
2006182#84
2007214#65
2008217#70
2009231#68
2010191#85
2011226#66
2012237#58
2013236#55
2014280#42