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Gillian

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪliən/

Rank in 2024
#3,149
Born in 2024
51
Peak year
1999 · #303
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 51 girls were named Gillian, about 1 in every 31,631.
  • It peaked in 1999 with 1,022 babies, ranked #303.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1922.
  • 16,011 girls have been named Gillian since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Gillian per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Silent
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    Millennials
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    Gen Z
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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 65 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 575 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,994 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,792 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,625 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 955 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A female given name from Latin; Medieval variant of Julian and Juliana, revived and quite popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒɪliən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Gillian, CC BY-SA 4.0.