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Gillie

About 512 American babies have been named Gillie since 1881, most of them around 1896. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1990. About 50 Gillies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Gillie boys named Gillie

By the numbers

Total US births
512
Estimated living today
50
Median age today
75
Peak year
1896
Best rank
813th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1881
Girls / boys
321 / 191

How old the living Gillies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 512 babies given the name since 1881, about 50 are alive — 10 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1896

The most popular girls’ names the year Gillie peaked:

All the names of 1896

Gillie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Gillie 20 4,081st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Gillie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.