Jill
Jill is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 41st, in 1977.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19667,870 births
- Best rank
- #41in 1977
- Since 1906
- 208,052people given the name
The story in the numbers
208,052 girls have been named Jill in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 7,870 births — 0.47% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 19 births in 2024, against 7,870 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 33%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jill | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 53 | |
| 1920s | 256 | |
| 1930s | 1,578 | |
| 1940s | 11,865 | |
| 1950s | 39,060 | |
| 1960s | 69,144 | |
| 1970s | 55,071 | |
| 1980s | 24,409 | |
| 1990s | 4,748 | |
| 2000s | 1,335 | |
| 2010s | 425 | |
| 2020s | 103 |
In 1966, its biggest year
Jill was the 49th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Jill
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jamapeak 1961
- Juliepeak 1958
- Carynpeak 1965
- Karynpeak 1964
- Dannettepeak 1965
- Lanettepeak 1964
- Reneepeak 1962
- Wendypeak 1967
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.