Baby name

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Jillian

/JIL · ee · an/


“Youthful”

English elaboration of Jill, from Latin Julius; the -ian ending gives it more formal register than Jill alone.

jill · jilli

gentle

How it ages.

Peaked in the 1980s US - a step above Jill in formality but the same era.

The cultural moment.

Common in the US from the 1970s-1990s; declining since.