first name
JILL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 194,537 people named Jill, 93.7% reported their origin as White, 1.6% as Black and 1.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jill peaked in 1966, when 7,886 babies got the name.
At least 208,572 babies have been given the name since 1906. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jill by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #112. The largest share of babies named Jill, 46.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jill is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jill has been most common in Iowa (2.2×), Minnesota (2.2×), and Wisconsin (2.1×), and least common in Mississippi (0.25×).
205,391 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jill
Spelled almost the same
4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jill, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jill ranks #96,965 of 156,621, with 201 people. See Jill as a last name
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