Jill

For other uses, see Jill (disambiguation).

Jill

Jack and Jill by Kate Greenaway, 1900.

Gender| Primarily feminine
Origin
Region of origin| England
Other names
Variant form(s)| 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

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* 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 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 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 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

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* 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

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* 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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1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 143\. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
2. ^ "Full text of "Curiosities of Puritan nomenclature"". archive.org. 1880. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
3. ^ Campbell, Mike. "Jill". behindthename.com. Behind the Name. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

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