Jill
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. 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. 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.
People with the given name
- Jill Abramson, American author, journalist, and academic
- Jill Andrew, Canadian politician
- Jill Andrews, American singer-songwriter
- Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women
- Jill Balcon, British actress
- Jill Barber, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist
- Jill Becker, American psychological researcher
- Jill Bialosky, American writer
- Jill Biden, American educator and the First Lady of the United States
- Jill Bilcock, Australian film editor
- Jill Bonner, British-American condensed matter physicist
- Jill Brothers, Canadian curler
- Jill E. Brown, African American aviator
- Jill Bryson, Scottish singer and member of Strawberry Switchblade
- Jill Carroll, American journalist
- Jill P. Carter, American politician
- Jill Clayburgh, American actress
- Jill Cooper (tennis), British tennis player
- Jill Corey, American popular standards singer
- Jill Costello, American athlete and lung cancer activist
- Jill Craigie, British film director and writer
- Jill Craybas, American tennis player
- Jill Dando, British television presenter
- Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly
- Jill Dillard, American reality TV personality
- Jill Ellis, American football manager
- Jill Esmond, English actress
- Jill Evans, Welsh politician
- Jill Filipovic, American author and attorney
- Jill Fisch, American professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Jill Frappier, British voice actress
- Jill Freedman, American photographer
- Jill Furse, English actress
- Jill Gascoine, English actress and novelist
- Jill Gibbon, British artist
- Jill Gibson, American singer, songwriter, photographer, painter and sculptor
- Jill Godmilow, American independent filmmaker
- Jill Green (disambiguation)
- Jill Goodacre, American model and actress
- Jill Greenberg, Canadian-American photographer
- Jill Halfpenny, English actress
- Jill Hall (athlete), former athlete who competed for England in athletics events
- Jill Haworth, English-American actress
- Jill Harris, American voice actress
- Jill Heinerth, Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and film-maker
- Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and musician
- Jill Henselwood, Canadian Equestrian Team member who competes in show jumping
- Jill Holterman, Dutch long-distance runner
- Jill Horstead, former competitive swimmer who represented Canada in international events during the 1980s
- Jill Hunter, English former distance runner
- Jill Hutchison, American retired women's basketball coach
- Jill Hyem, British actor and screenwriter
- Jill Idh, Swedish kickboxer
- Jill Ireland, British actress
- Jill Irving, Canadian Equestrian Team athlete in dressage
- Jill Janssens, Belgian footballer
- Jill Janus, American singer
- Jill Johnson, Swedish singer
- Jill Jones (disambiguation), several people
- Jill Karofsky, American judge
- Jill Kelley, Lebanese-American philanthropist, activist, and diplomatic advisor
- Jill Kelley, American pornographic actress, director and producer
- Jill Kinmont Boothe, American alpine ski racer and schoolteacher
- Jill Knight, British politician
- Jill Koford, American politician
- Jill Konrath, American business writer
- Jill Koshiol, American cancer epidemiologist
- Jill Larson, American actress
- Jill Lepore, American historian
- Jill MacLean, Canadian writer
- Jill Martin, English musical theatre actress
- Jill McKnight, Canadian politician
- Jill Mellick, Australian Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist
- Jill Morris, British diplomat
- Jill Murphy, English writer and illustrator
- Jill Norman, British editor and food writer
- Jill Officer, Canadian curler
- Jill Ovens, Zealand trade unionist, politician, and activist
- Jill Parrish, American lawyer and judge
- Jill Pizzotti, American college basketball coach
- Jill Roord, Dutch professional footballer
- Jill Saulnier, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jill Savery, American competitor in synchronised swimming and Olympic champion
- Jill Saward, English campaigner and author
- Jill Scott, American singer
- Jill Scott, English footballer
- Jill Sebastian, American educational innovator and artist
- Jill Siegfried, American pharmacologist
- Gillian Slattery, known as Jill Slattery, British swimmer
- Jill W. Smith, American philanthropist
- Jill Sobule, 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, American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and water polo player
- Jill St. John, American actress
- Jill Talley, American voice actress
- Jill Tarter, American astronomer
- Jill Thompson, American illustrator and write
- Jill Long Thompson, American politician and academic
- Jill Tokuda, American politician
- Jill Tracy, American musician
- Jill Trenary, American former figure skater
- Jill Vedder, American philanthropist, activist and former fashion model
- Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
- Jill Viles, American writer
- Jill Wagner, American actress
- Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist and children's writer
- Jill Watson, American retired pair skater and coach
- Jill Zarin, American television personality
- Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist and professor at Goucher College
Fictional characters
- 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, the main character of VA-11 Hall-A, a visual novel.
Jill as middle name
- Amy-Jill Levine, feminist theology professor
- J. Jill Suitor, sociology professor
- Suzanne Jill Levine, American poet and translator
- Lara Jill Miller, American actress