girls:
82.8k births since 1944
#426 (93rd percentile)
boys:
227 births since 1977
#4359 (5th percentile)
overall:
83k births since 1944
#779 (90th percentile)
The name Jillian is the #779 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 83,028 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 89.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #426 (92.6% percentile) for all time with 82,801 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,359 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 227 births since 1977.
Jillian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Jillian is available in 78 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (78 years for girls and 24 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 Jillian has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jillian reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 88.0% percentile (ranked #96) with 1,684 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 1,684 births per million (ranked 88.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jillian ranks #739 for girls (22.0% percentile) with 122 births per million, which is 7.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jillian reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #740) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jillian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jillian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Jillian is pronounced as JIH-lee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JIHL-yuhn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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