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Gill

“ravine, glen”

unisexfeminineLatin script

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English

Origin: Old Norse
1 language contexts: English
Follow the evidence: 5 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Gill

Gill is a unisex given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse gil via Dutch and Middle English, with the stated meaning “ravine, glen”.

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “ravine, glen”

* As an English surname, converged from variants of Giles (sometimes through Dutch), Julian, and William. * As a northern English surname, from Middle English gil (“ravine, glen”), from Old Norse gil. The Old Norse is also a source of the Norwegian surname. * As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McGill. * Also as an Irish surname, variant of Gall. * As a Jewish/Israeli given name, as well as surname, from Hebrew גיל (“joy”). * As a German surname, variant of Gilger. * As a Sikh Punjabi surname originating in India, from ਗਿੱਲ (gill, “moisture”).

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

French Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDiminutif de Gillian.

Diminutif de Gillian.

Sources for this account (1)

French Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Gill is used

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countries in our sources

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5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2006: 5 boys (rank 12055). Documented as a given name in English.

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4 of 12 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Gill

Region and dataset

Latest · 2006: 5; applications; Rank #12,055
Peak year: 1956; 44 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Gill in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	5	971	observed
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	8	2,092	observed
1914	8	2,457	observed
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	7	3,177	observed
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	6	3,736	observed
1920	7	3,489	observed
1921	7	3,517	observed
1922	5	4,307	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	9	3,023	observed
1925	10	2,755	observed
1926	6	3,708	observed
1927	6	3,780	observed
1928	10	2,659	observed
1929	7	3,247	observed
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	12	2,093	observed
1934	7	2,973	observed
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	8	2,629	observed
1937	5	3,518	observed
1938	6	3,175	observed
1939	8	2,609	observed
1940	11	2,179	observed
1941	15	1,821	observed
1942	12	2,145	observed
1943	21	1,529	observed
1944	6	3,109	observed
1945	14	1,852	observed
1946	18	1,692	observed
1947	30	1,336	observed
1948	31	1,296	observed
1949	26	1,434	observed
1950	40	1,123	observed
1951	42	1,110	observed
1952	34	1,268	observed
1953	33	1,304	observed
1954	34	1,292	observed
1955	37	1,240	observed
1956	44	1,140	observed
1957	32	1,388	observed
1958	41	1,204	observed
1959	41	1,212	observed
1960	24	1,658	observed
1961	28	1,521	observed
1962	28	1,479	observed
1963	27	1,513	observed
1964	24	1,615	observed
1965	21	1,720	observed
1966	14	2,132	observed
1967	12	2,352	observed
1968	17	1,962	observed
1969	16	2,130	observed
1970	13	2,621	observed
1971	13	2,686	observed
1972	13	2,659	observed
1973	13	2,716	observed
1974	9	3,558	observed
1975	9	3,659	observed
1976	10	3,471	observed
1977	8	4,164	observed
1978	9	3,857	observed
1979	9	4,068	observed
1980	5	6,250	observed
1981	8	4,509	observed
1982	12	3,482	observed
1983	11	3,630	observed
1984	6	5,561	observed
1985	11	3,805	observed
1986	7	5,332	observed
1987	6	6,089	observed
1988	6	6,426	observed
1989	5	7,905	observed
1990	9	5,382	observed
1991	6	7,271	observed
1992	10	5,236	observed
1993	10	5,360	observed
1994	5	8,800	observed
1995	6	7,792	observed
1996	12	4,878	observed
1997	5	9,265	observed
1998	7	7,560	observed
1999	9	6,530	observed
2000	6	9,112	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	5	10,667	observed
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	5	11,356	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	5	12,055	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Gill” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Gill— “downy”
_Gill_, _f._ _Eng._ Lat. downy, 150
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

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A name worth keeping.

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06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms3

Wikidata Q24045818CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:En-us-gill.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Gill

Gill is a unisex given name documented in English. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse gil via Dutch and Middle English, with the stated meaning “ravine, glen”.

2 source accounts

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “ravine, glen”

Sources for this account (1)

Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 1 more accountHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

French Wiktionary accountSource-reportedDiminutif de Gillian.

Diminutif de Gillian.

Sources for this account (1)

French Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Gill is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Gill’s connections around the world.

5 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2006: 5 boys (rank 12055). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 12 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Gill

Region and dataset

Latest · 2006: 5; applications; Rank #12,055
Peak year: 1956; 44 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Gill in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	5	971	observed
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	8	2,092	observed
1914	8	2,457	observed
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	7	3,177	observed
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	6	3,736	observed
1920	7	3,489	observed
1921	7	3,517	observed
1922	5	4,307	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	9	3,023	observed
1925	10	2,755	observed
1926	6	3,708	observed
1927	6	3,780	observed
1928	10	2,659	observed
1929	7	3,247	observed
1930	no value	no value	not covered
1931	no value	no value	not covered
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	12	2,093	observed
1934	7	2,973	observed
1935	7	2,951	observed
1936	8	2,629	observed
1937	5	3,518	observed
1938	6	3,175	observed
1939	8	2,609	observed
1940	11	2,179	observed
1941	15	1,821	observed
1942	12	2,145	observed
1943	21	1,529	observed
1944	6	3,109	observed
1945	14	1,852	observed
1946	18	1,692	observed
1947	30	1,336	observed
1948	31	1,296	observed
1949	26	1,434	observed
1950	40	1,123	observed
1951	42	1,110	observed
1952	34	1,268	observed
1953	33	1,304	observed
1954	34	1,292	observed
1955	37	1,240	observed
1956	44	1,140	observed
1957	32	1,388	observed
1958	41	1,204	observed
1959	41	1,212	observed
1960	24	1,658	observed
1961	28	1,521	observed
1962	28	1,479	observed
1963	27	1,513	observed
1964	24	1,615	observed
1965	21	1,720	observed
1966	14	2,132	observed
1967	12	2,352	observed
1968	17	1,962	observed
1969	16	2,130	observed
1970	13	2,621	observed
1971	13	2,686	observed
1972	13	2,659	observed
1973	13	2,716	observed
1974	9	3,558	observed
1975	9	3,659	observed
1976	10	3,471	observed
1977	8	4,164	observed
1978	9	3,857	observed
1979	9	4,068	observed
1980	5	6,250	observed
1981	8	4,509	observed
1982	12	3,482	observed
1983	11	3,630	observed
1984	6	5,561	observed
1985	11	3,805	observed
1986	7	5,332	observed
1987	6	6,089	observed
1988	6	6,426	observed
1989	5	7,905	observed
1990	9	5,382	observed
1991	6	7,271	observed
1992	10	5,236	observed
1993	10	5,360	observed
1994	5	8,800	observed
1995	6	7,792	observed
1996	12	4,878	observed
1997	5	9,265	observed
1998	7	7,560	observed
1999	9	6,530	observed
2000	6	9,112	observed
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	5	10,667	observed
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	5	11,356	observed
2005	8	8,299	observed
2006	5	12,055	observed
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Gill— “downy”
_Gill_, _f._ _Eng._ Lat. downy, 150
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms3

Wikidata Q24045818CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: GillCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:En-us-gill.oggCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates5

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Gill

About Gill

Old Norse origin

Where Gill is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Gil

Gilles

Gilli

Gillion

Gilly

Jill

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Gill

About Gill

Old Norse origin

Where Gill is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Gil

Gilles

Gilli

Gillion

Gilly

Jill

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Gill

Old Norse origin

Where Gill is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Gill

Old Norse origin

Where Gill is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Historical scholarship

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page