jack and jill bathroom term?

Found solid information on Jack and Jill nursery rhyme origin. What was the origin of "Jack and Jill bathroom" design term.

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  1. It is called that because it is a bathroom that adjoins two bedrooms -- generally separating the two. And the most common gender in families with two children is one male and one female. Hence, the bathroom usually separated a girl's bathroom from a boy's bathroom. And the original designer of the first J-and-J bathroom had 2 kids -- one named Francis and one named Mervyn.