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{{Infobox given name
| name = Jill
| image=File:April Baby Jack and Jill.jpg
| imagesize=
| caption= ''Jack and Jill'' by [[Kate Greenaway]], 1900.
| pronunciation=
| gender = Primarily feminine
| meaning =
| region = England
| origin =
| related names =
| footnotes =
|variant=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 [[everyman|everygirl]] quality, as in the 15th century English nursery rhyme [[Jack and Jill]].<ref> {{cite book |last1=Hanks|first1= Patrick| last2=Hardcastle|first2=Kate |last3=Hodges| first3=Flavia| author-link= |date= 2006|title= Oxford Dictionary of First Names|url= |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=143|isbn= 0-19-861060-2}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/curiositiesofpur00byubard/curiositiesofpur00byubard_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Curiosities of Puritan nomenclature"|website=archive.org|year=1880|accessdate=30 December 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref> {{cite web
| url= https://www.behindthename.com/name/jill
| title= Jill
| last= Campbell
| first= Mike
| date=
| website= behindthename.com
| publisher= Behind the Name
| access-date= 30 December 2023
| quote = }}</ref>

==People with the given name==
*[[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 physics|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 [[Traditional pop|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 Kelly (actress)|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 (actress)|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 (singer)|Jill Scott]] (born 1972), American singer
* [[Jill Scott (footballer)|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#Cast|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==
* Jill, a character in the nursery rhyme "[[Jack and Jill (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 (2015 film)|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)|''Bloodlines'' (book series)]]
* Jill Green, [[Rachel Green]]'s sister in NBC sitcom ''[[Friends]]'', played by [[Reese Witherspoon]]
* [[Jill Masterson]], from [[Goldfinger (film)|''Goldfinger'']]
* Jill Pembroke, a character in the American sitcom television series ''[[Charles in Charge#Cast|Charles in Charge]]''
* [[Jill Pole]], a main character in C. S. Lewis' ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair''
* [[List of Scream (film series) characters#Jill Roberts|Jill Roberts]], a main character in ''[[Scream 4]]''
* [[Jill Taylor (Home Improvement)|Jill Taylor]], the wife of Tim Taylor from the ABC sitcom [[Home Improvement (TV series)|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]]''
* [[Characters of Final Fantasy XVI|Jill Warrick]], the lead female character from [[Final Fantasy XVI]]
* [[Characters in the Deverry cycle#Jill|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==
* [[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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