Meaning not yet researched.
Jillian: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #96 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #96 in 1982; #1,266 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jillian in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,266 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #96.
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Jillian: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #96 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 3,056 (1982).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Jillian, making it the 1,266th most common girls’ name of the year, down 135 places from #1,131 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 214 girls named Jillian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #96, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,056. For comparison, it was #440 in 2015 and #4,986 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jillian in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 83,424 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 25,574 babies named Jillian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,220 US girls were named Jillian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 602. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jillian ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #539 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gillian (16,127 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jilian, Jillianne and Jilliann are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jill.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jilian (803), Jillianne (472), Jilliann (338), Jillyan (291), Jyllian (244), Jillyn (171), Jilliane (149), Jilleen (138), Jillann (126), Jillane (119), Jylian (103), Jillien (66), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 6 | #539 | #350 |
| Ohio | 13 | #726 | #305 |
| Missouri | 7 | #765 | #364 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #814 | #282 |
| Indiana | 7 | #860 | #364 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #981 | #375 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,042 | #709 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,107 | #368 |
| New York | 13 | #1,115 | #434 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,303 | #297 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,447 | #634 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,506 | #466 |
| California | 15 | #1,531 | #686 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,850 | #471 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,013 | #682 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2024 | 214 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2023 | 214 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 2022 | 232 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2021 | 253 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 2020 | 267 | #957 | — | — |
| 2019 | 353 | #787 | — | — |
| 2018 | 383 | #734 | — | — |
| 2017 | 525 | #574 | — | — |
| 2016 | 602 | #518 | — | — |
| 2015 | 721 | #440 | — | — |
| 2014 | 848 | #385 | — | — |
| 2013 | 945 | #342 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,102 | #286 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,431 | #221 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,820 | #169 | — | — |
| 2009 | 2,041 | #157 | 5 | #13,375 |
| 2008 | 1,905 | #174 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,787 | #187 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,004 | #174 | 6 | #11,280 |
| 2005 | 2,121 | #161 | 5 | #12,278 |
| 2004 | 2,179 | #152 | 8 | #8,498 |
| 2003 | 2,425 | #135 | 5 | #11,746 |
| 2002 | 2,734 | #125 | — | — |
| 2001 | 2,847 | #120 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,779 | #120 | 10 | #6,552 |
| 1999 | 2,280 | #142 | — | — |
| 1998 | 2,015 | #158 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,849 | #166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,462 | #199 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,503 | #197 | 5 | #9,512 |
| 1994 | 1,542 | #191 | 5 | #9,499 |
| 1993 | 1,980 | #157 | 8 | #6,498 |
| 1992 | 2,041 | #149 | — | — |
| 1991 | 2,377 | #136 | 5 | #8,825 |
| 1990 | 2,676 | #122 | 13 | #4,277 |
| 1989 | 2,922 | #106 | 18 | #3,262 |
| 1988 | 2,746 | #104 | 10 | #4,597 |
| 1987 | 2,793 | #99 | 12 | #3,844 |
| 1986 | 2,587 | #107 | 12 | #3,744 |
| 1985 | 2,475 | #115 | 12 | #3,686 |
| 1984 | 2,624 | #106 | 14 | #3,182 |
| 1983 | 2,514 | #115 | 17 | #2,728 |
| 1982 | 3,056 | #96 | 14 | #3,194 |
| 1981 | 2,079 | #137 | 10 | #3,986 |
| 1980 | 1,650 | #171 | 9 | #4,302 |
| 1979 | 1,506 | #179 | 6 | #5,687 |
| 1978 | 1,339 | #194 | 8 | #4,338 |
| 1977 | 1,054 | #236 | 10 | #3,714 |
| 1976 | 255 | #615 | — | — |
| 1975 | 88 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1974 | 84 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1973 | 93 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1972 | 101 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1968 | 78 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,268 | — | — |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,572 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,260 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,709 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,573 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,597 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,877 | — | — |
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).