How popular is the name Jill?

Jill ranks 216th among girls' names in US records, with 209,112 births since 1906. Over the past decade it accounts for 260.

Is Jill a unisex name?

No. Jill is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1966, when 7,886 children were given the name. It has been in use for 119 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#216 of girl names

Pronounced JH IH1 L (ARPABET)

Jill is a girls' name, and first appears in 1906. It has been given to 209,112 children — the 216th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 260 births across the past decade, against a peak of 7,886 in a single year. That peak was in 1966.

1966Girls: 7,886Boys: 15

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Jill?: Jill ranks 216th among girls' names in US records, with 209,112 births since 1906. Over the past decade it accounts for 260.
Is Jill a unisex name?: No. Jill is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Jill most popular?: 1966, when 7,886 children were given the name. It has been in use for 119 years and is still recorded as of 2024.