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Jyllian

Gender
Girl
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Origin
Latin

Jyllian is a girls' name of Latin origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Jyllian mean?

Latin: variant spelling of Jillian, a form of Gillian from Juliana

A variant spelling of Jillian, which began as a medieval English form of Juliana.

Is Jyllian a girl's or a boy's name?

Jyllian is a girls' name.

How popular is Jyllian in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the girls named Jyllian in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1981Busiest: 23 in 20012012
Jyllian in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20125#16,863
20119#11,175
201011#9,786
200916#7,676
200814#8,525
200720#6,548
200615#7,865
200515#7,495
200410#9,887
200317#6,571
200213#7,810
200123#5,004
200011#8,527
199915#6,478
19986#12,420
19975#13,719
19966#11,801
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19916#11,501
19905#12,952
19890–
19880–
19877#8,773
19865#10,907
19850–
19845#10,417
19830–
19820–
19815#10,409

Nicknames for Jyllian

Names like Jyllian

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jyllian: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jyllian, updated 20 October 2026.