Meaning not yet researched.
Jill: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #41 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #41 in 1977; #5,810 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jill in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,810 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #41.
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Jill: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #41 in 1977 · most girls in one year: 7,871 (1966).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Jill, making it the 5,810th most common girls’ name of the year, up 459 places from #6,269 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 19 girls named Jill in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #41, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,871, in 1966. For comparison, it was #4,030 in 2015 and #142 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jill in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 208,572 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 69,310 babies named Jill.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 244 US girls were named Jill; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Gill, Jil and Jyl are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gill (1,274), Jil (559), Jyl (389), Jyll (91), Jeiel (23), Jeel (10), Jiale (5), Jiel (5), Jielle (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jill in the open dataset we use.
Jill is listed as a nickname for Jillian, Julia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,810 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,269 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,430 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,051 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,461 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,696 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,471 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,030 | — | — |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2009 | 82 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2002 | 140 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2000 | 215 | #988 | — | — |
| 1999 | 213 | #972 | — | — |
| 1998 | 263 | #809 | — | — |
| 1997 | 314 | #690 | — | — |
| 1996 | 343 | #650 | — | — |
| 1995 | 408 | #565 | — | — |
| 1994 | 460 | #534 | — | — |
| 1993 | 546 | #459 | — | — |
| 1992 | 647 | #397 | — | — |
| 1991 | 719 | #357 | — | — |
| 1990 | 835 | #329 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,057 | #255 | — | — |
| 1988 | 1,333 | #197 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,409 | #197 | 5 | #7,506 |
| 1986 | 1,771 | #159 | 7 | #5,610 |
| 1985 | 2,039 | #143 | 7 | #5,422 |
| 1984 | 2,326 | #120 | 6 | #5,937 |
| 1983 | 2,787 | #98 | 12 | #3,512 |
| 1982 | 3,270 | #89 | 14 | #3,193 |
| 1981 | 3,857 | #78 | 8 | #4,722 |
| 1980 | 4,558 | #66 | 12 | #3,503 |
| 1979 | 5,192 | #52 | 24 | #2,129 |
| 1978 | 5,676 | #46 | 19 | #2,425 |
| 1977 | 6,238 | #41 | 16 | #2,725 |
| 1976 | 5,283 | #52 | 16 | #2,655 |
| 1975 | 5,728 | #46 | 20 | #2,254 |
| 1974 | 5,061 | #58 | 17 | #2,401 |
| 1973 | 4,538 | #62 | 13 | #2,781 |
| 1972 | 4,824 | #62 | 14 | #2,590 |
| 1971 | 5,724 | #59 | 11 | #3,055 |
| 1970 | 6,806 | #52 | 25 | #1,765 |
| 1969 | 6,666 | #51 | 19 | #1,941 |
| 1968 | 7,521 | #46 | 18 | #1,924 |
| 1967 | 7,398 | #50 | 19 | #1,835 |
| 1966 | 7,871 | #49 | 15 | #2,090 |
| 1965 | 7,820 | #51 | 26 | #1,539 |
| 1964 | 7,242 | #61 | 16 | #2,072 |
| 1963 | 6,300 | #68 | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1962 | 6,170 | #72 | 14 | #2,235 |
| 1961 | 6,137 | #74 | 17 | #2,034 |
| 1960 | 6,019 | #76 | 10 | #2,767 |
| 1959 | 5,554 | #86 | 16 | #2,070 |
| 1958 | 4,809 | #98 | — | — |
| 1957 | 4,729 | #100 | 9 | #2,912 |
| 1956 | 4,576 | #101 | 10 | #2,709 |
| 1955 | 4,223 | #102 | 16 | #2,003 |
| 1954 | 3,968 | #107 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 1953 | 3,389 | #114 | — | — |
| 1952 | 3,051 | #118 | 5 | #3,993 |
| 1951 | 2,566 | #130 | — | — |
| 1950 | 2,196 | #142 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,947 | #152 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,886 | #150 | 5 | #3,925 |
| 1947 | 1,859 | #156 | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1946 | 1,624 | #166 | — | — |
| 1945 | 1,158 | #177 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,037 | #194 | 7 | #2,988 |
| 1943 | 811 | #237 | 6 | #3,382 |
| 1942 | 663 | #269 | — | — |
| 1941 | 490 | #294 | — | — |
| 1940 | 390 | #322 | — | — |
| 1939 | 323 | #362 | — | — |
| 1938 | 265 | #414 | — | — |
| 1937 | 184 | #481 | — | — |
| 1936 | 180 | #478 | — | — |
| 1935 | 151 | #523 | — | — |
| 1934 | 149 | #532 | — | — |
| 1933 | 112 | #614 | — | — |
| 1932 | 84 | #736 | — | — |
| 1931 | 72 | #799 | — | — |
| 1930 | 58 | #964 | — | — |
| 1929 | 54 | #987 | — | — |
| 1928 | 36 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,337 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,598 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,277 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,082 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).