Given name & surname
Jil
“jack and Jill”
Jil is a variant of Jill. One interpretation is “jack and Jill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jil is a variant of Jill. One interpretation is “jack and Jill.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1945. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 559
- 0 boys · 559 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 974 as a first name in 2020; 107 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jil
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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