Given name & surname
Jill
“jack and Jill”
Jill is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “jack and Jill.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “jack and Jill.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
Jill is used as a form of Jillian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1906. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jill through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 208,572
- 501 boys · 208,071 girls
- Most popular year
- 1966
- 7,886 babies
- 2025
- 21
- #5,810 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −23%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 21 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 5,810 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 23.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7,871 in 1966. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 194,537 as a first name in 2020; 201 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jill’s family of names
In English usage, Jill is a diminutive of Gillian. In English usage, Jill has a related form in Jillian. Jill is a form of Jillian.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Jillianvariant · English
- Gillianfull form · English
- Gilldiminutive · English
- Jyllvariant
- Jylvariant
- Jillyanvariant
- Jilvariant
- Jillydiminutive · English
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jill
- Jill BidenAmerican educator and First Lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025born 1951
- Jill SteinAmerican politician and physician (born 1950)
- Jill ClayburghAmerican actress (1944–2010)
- Jill JohnsonSwedish country and schlager singerborn 1973
- Jill HennessyCanadian actor-singer (born 1968)
- Jill St. JohnAmerican actressborn 1940
- Jill ScottAmerican singerborn 1972
- Jill IrelandEnglish actress (1936–1990)
- Jill TarterAmerican astronomerborn 1944
Characters named Jill: Jill Valentine (Resident Evil), Jill Pole (fictional girl, second lead character in The Silver Chair (Narnia, book 4)).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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