Gill
Gill is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195644 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1884
- 1,274people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,218 boys have been named Gill in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 44 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 44 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 31%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 56 girls have also been given it, 4.4% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gill | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 29 | |
| 1920s | 67 | |
| 1930s | 53 | |
| 1940s | 184 | |
| 1950s | 378 | |
| 1960s | 211 | |
| 1970s | 106 | |
| 1980s | 77 | |
| 1990s | 79 | |
| 2000s | 29 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Gill was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1956 were Michael, James, Robert, David and John. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Gill
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Brucepeak 1956
- Douglaspeak 1957
- Randelpeak 1957
- Dwightpeak 1953
- Delpeak 1958
- Donniepeak 1952
- Mickeypeak 1957
- Farleypeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.