About the name Gil
Gil belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Gil first appears in Social Security records in 1914. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #686 in 1957, and in 2024 27 babies received the name — 4,951 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.