How Many People Are Named Gill?
people named Gill are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 405,920 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,274 babies named Gill in Social Security records from 1884 to 2006, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
52 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Short form of GILLIAN.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Gill in English. Counting Gill and these spellings together, about 183,761 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Gill, 5.4% were girls and 94.6% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1940s: 5.6% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 1970s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Gill alive today is about 59 years old, and 61% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 71 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Gill first appears in the records in 1884 and was given most often in 1956, to 52 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2006.
Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2006
🏆 Rank History
Gill has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,037, in 1884.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,037 (1884) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,240 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Gill alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Gill were born in Texas than in any other state: about 26 of those alive today.
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