Gillian
Just 27 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century. A Latin name at root, meaning "youthful", so rare here that most Poles have never met one.
Gillian Pronunciation
Gillian is pronounced GEELL-yahn (/ˈgilljan/).
What Gillian means
Where Gillian comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gillian came into English from the Latin name Juliana, the feminine of Julianus. The root is Latin. Behind both names stands Julius, the clan name of one of Rome's oldest families.
The meaning people attach to Gillian is "youthful." That sense arrived later, pulled from a link between Julius and iuvenis, the Latin word for young. The Julii claimed descent from Iulus, son of Aeneas, and Roman writers leaned on the idea of youth when they used the name.
English took Juliana and wore it down over centuries until Gillian emerged. In a Polish class register today, a Gillian would sit near the Julias and Julians who share her Latin origin. The line back to Julianus stays visible, and with it the reading of the name as "youthful."
How many people are named Gillian
1 in 834957 women in Poland is named Gillian. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8055 among female names.
Gillian as a middle name
Gillian is a first name for 27 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2156th, between Florentine (12) and Hannelora (12).
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#2154 Felicytas12
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#2155 Florentine12
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#2156 Gillian12
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#2157 Hannelora12
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#2158 Hendrika12