girls:
208k births since 1906
#190 (97th percentile)
boys:
501 births since 1943
#4085 (11th percentile)
overall:
208.5k births since 1906
#378 (95th percentile)
The name Jill is the #378 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 208,530 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 95.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #190 (96.7% percentile) for all time with 208,029 births since 1906. For boys, it ranks #4,085 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 501 births since 1943.
Jill first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for girls and 1943 for boys). Birth data for Jill is available in 113 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (113 years for girls and 38 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jill has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jill reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 94.8% percentile (ranked #41) with 3,791 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 4,482 births per million (ranked 93.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1978, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jill ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jill reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #622) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jill".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jill is pronounced as jihl, which has 1 syllables.
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