Entry № 4929 · English origin

Jill Jill — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JIL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Youthful (Jill Biden, US First Lady; Jill Scott)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "youthful (jill biden, us first lady; jill scott)".

Jill is the English diminutive of Gillian — itself from the Latin Iuliana (feminine of Julius, "youthful, of Jupiter"). Jill Scott (born 1972) — American Grammy-winning soul singer; Who Is Jill Scott? (2000).

Youthful (Jill Biden, US First Lady; Jill Scott) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Jill
Transliteration
Jill
Pronunciation
/ dʒɪl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jill stands.

Jill does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jills before her.

Real people
Jill Biden
Former US First Lady.
born 1951
Jill Scott
American soul singer.
born 1972
Jill Stein
American politician.
born 1950
In fiction
Jill
Nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill".
1765

Names connected to Jill.

The number behind Jill.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jill reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.