Jill
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| File:April Baby Jack and Jill.jpg Jack and Jill by Kate Greenaway, 1900. | |
| Gender | Primarily feminine |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Region of origin | England |
| Other names | |
| Variant form | Juliana |
Jill is an English feminine given name, often a short form of the name Gillian, which in turn originated as a Middle English variant of Juliana. Jill was such a common name that it had an everygirl quality, as in the 15th century English nursery rhyme Jack and Jill.[1] By the 17th century, the name had become a term for a "common street jade," implying promiscuous sexual behavior, and declined in usage in the Anglosphere.[2] Usage of the name increased again in the 20th century. The name was most used in English-speaking countries from the 1930s to the 1970s. It is currently well-used in the Netherlands.[3]
People with the given name
[edit | edit source]- Jill Abramson (born 1954), American author, journalist, and academic
- Jill Andrew, Canadian politician
- Jill Andrews (born 1980), American singer-songwriter
- Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women
- Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress
- Jill Barber (born 1980), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist
- Jill Becker, American psychological researcher
- Jill Bialosky (born 1957), American writer
- Jill Biden (born 1951), American educator and the First Lady of the United States
- Jill Bilcock (born 1948), Australian film editor
- Jill Bonner (1937–2021), British-American condensed matter physicist
- Jill Brothers (born 1983), Canadian curler
- Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator
- Jill Bryson (born 1961), Scottish singer and member of Strawberry Switchblade
- Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist
- Jill P. Carter (born 1964), American politician
- Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress
- Jill Cooper (tennis) (born 1949), British tennis player
- Jill Corey (1935–2021), American popular standards singer
- Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist
- Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer
- Jill Craybas (born 1974), American tennis player
- Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter
- Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly
- Jill Dillard (born 1991), American reality TV personality
- Jill Ellis (born 1966), American football manager
- Jill Esmond (1908–1990), English actress
- Jill Evans (born 1959), Welsh politician
- Jill Filipovic (born 1983), American author and attorney
- Jill Fisch, American professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Jill Frappier (born 1944), British voice actress
- Jill Freedman (1939–2019), American photographer
- Jill Furse (1915–1944), English actress
- Jill Gascoine (1937−2020), English actress and novelist
- Jill Gibbon, British artist
- Jill Gibson (born 1942), American singer, songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor
- Jill Godmilow (1943–2025), American independent filmmaker
- Jill Green (disambiguation)
- Jill Goodacre (born 1964), American model and actress
- Jill Greenberg (born 1967), Canadian-American photographer
- Jill Halfpenny (born 1975), English actress
- Jill Hall (athlete) (born 1947), former athlete who competed for England in athletics events
- Jill Haworth (1945–2011), English-American actress
- Jill Harris, American voice actress
- Jill Heinerth (born 1965), Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker
- Jill Hennessy (born 1968), Canadian actress and musician
- Jill Henselwood (born 1962), Canadian Equestrian Team member who competes in show jumping
- Jill Holterman (born 1991), Dutch long-distance runner
- Jill Horstead (born 1967), former competitive swimmer who represented Canada in international events during the 1980s
- Jill Hunter (born 1966), English former distance runner
- Jill Hutchison (born 1945), American retired women's basketball coach
- Jill Hyem (1937–2015), British actor and screenwriter
- Jill Idh, Swedish kickboxer
- Jill Ireland (1936–1990), British actress
- Jill Irving (born 1963), Canadian Equestrian Team athlete in dressage
- Jill Janssens (born 2003), Belgian footballer
- Jill Janus (1975–2018), American singer
- Jill Johnson (born 1973), Swedish singer
- Jill Jones (disambiguation), several people
- Jill Karofsky (born 1966), American judge
- Jill Kelley (born 1975), Lebanese-American philanthropist, activist, and diplomatic advisor
- Jill Kelley (born 1971), American pornographic actress, director and producer
- Jill Kinmont Boothe (1936–2012), American alpine ski racer and schoolteacher
- Jill Knight (1923–2022), British politician
- Jill Koford, American politician
- Jill Konrath, American business writer
- Jill Koshiol, American cancer epidemiologist
- Jill Larson (born 1947), American actress
- Jill Lepore (born 1966), American historian
- Jill MacLean (born 1941), Canadian writer
- Jill Martin (1938–2016), English musical theatre actress
- Jill McKnight, Canadian politician
- Jill Mellick, Australian Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist
- Jill Morris (born 1967), British diplomat
- Jill Murphy (1949–2021), English writer and illustrator
- Jill Norman, British editor and food writer
- Jill Officer (born 1975), Canadian curler
- Jill Ovens, Zealand trade unionist, politician, and activist
- Jill Parrish (born 1961), American lawyer and judge
- Jill Pizzotti (born 1966), American college basketball coach
- Jill Roord (born 1997), Dutch professional footballer
- Jill Saulnier (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jill Savery (born 1972), American competitor in synchronised swimming and Olympic champion
- Jill Saward (1965–2017), English campaigner and author
- Jill Scott (born 1972), American singer
- Jill Scott (born 1987), English footballer
- Jill Sebastian (born 1950), American educational innovator and artist
- Jill Siegfried, American pharmacologist
- Gillian Slattery, known as Jill Slattery (born 1945), British swimmer
- Jill W. Smith, American philanthropist
- Jill Sobule (1959–2025), American singer-songwriter
- Jill Stanley, Canadian actress who was a cast member on the Canadian sketch comedy TV series You Can't Do That on Television
- Jill Sterkel (born 1961), American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and water polo player
- Jill St. John (born 1940), American actress
- Jill Talley (born 1962), American voice actress
- Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer
- Jill Thompson (born 1966), American illustrator and write
- Jill Long Thompson (born 1952), American politician and academic
- Jill Tokuda (born 1976), American politician
- Jill Tracy, American musician
- Jill Trenary (born 1968), American former figure skater
- Jill Vedder (born 1977), American philanthropist, activist and former fashion model
- Jill Vidal (born 1982), Hong Kong singer
- Jill Viles (bor 1974), American writer
- Jill Wagner (born 1979), American actress
- Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020), English novelist and children's writer
- Jill Watson (born 1963), American retired pair skater and coach
- Jill Zarin, American television personality
- Jill Zimmerman (born 1959), computer scientist and professor at Goucher College
Fictional characters
[edit | edit source]- Jill, a character in the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"
- Jill Foster Abbott, a character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Jill Andersen, Riley's mother during the events of Disney Pixar's Inside Out. She is not named in the film itself, but rather in supplementary material.
- Jill Archer, a character from the BBC Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers
- Genocide Jill, a serial killer and the alternate personality of Toko Fukawa from the Danganronpa series
- Jillian "Jill" Mastrano Dragomir, a character from Richelle Mead's Bloodlines (book series)
- Jill Green, Rachel Green's sister in NBC sitcom Friends, played by Reese Witherspoon
- Jill Masterson, from Goldfinger
- Jill Pembroke, a character in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
- Jill Pole, a main character in C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
- Jill Roberts, a main character in Scream 4
- Jill Taylor, the wife of Tim Taylor from the ABC sitcom Home Improvement
- Jill Tyrell, the main character of the BBC sitcom Nighty Night
- Jill Valentine, a character from the Resident Evil video games series
- Dra. Jill Victorino, a character from the Filipino drama series The Broken Marriage Vow
- Jill Warrick, the lead female character from Final Fantasy XVI
- Jill, a character in Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle book series
- Jill (Julliane Stingray), the main character of VA-11 Hall-A, a visual novel.
Jill as middle name
[edit | edit source]- Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956), feminist theology professor
- J. Jill Suitor, sociology professor
- Suzanne Jill Levine (born 1946), American poet and translator
- Lara Jill Miller (born 1967), American actress
References
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