Gillian

girls:

16k births since 1922

#1189 (79th percentile)

boys:

68 births since 1978

#4518 (1st percentile)

overall:

16k births since 1922

#2049 (74th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gillian".

1922 2023 19222023

Key Statistics

Total Births
15,957
Peak Births
1,022
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1922
Peak Percentile
67.5%
Current Percentile
4.9%
Peak Rank
#289
Current Rank
#901
Female statistics
Total Births
68
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1988
First Recorded
1978
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#673
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Gillian

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Gillian. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.0% confident that Gillian is pronounced as JIH-lee-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is GIH-lee-uhn, at 16.0% confidence.

GIH-lee-uhn (3 syllables)
16.0% confidence
G IH1 L IY0 AH0 N
GIHL-yuhn (2 syllables)
8.0% confidence
G IH1 L Y AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Gillian. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Gillian, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JIH-leen (2 syllables)
10 names 1.1k births
JH IH1 L IY0 N
JIH-lee-an (3 syllables)
4 names 997 births
JH IH1 L IY0 AE0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH IH1 L IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.