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Janice
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
Rank in 2024
#2,254
Born in 2024
83
Peak year
1951 · #21
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 83 girls were named Janice, about 1 in every 19,436.
- It peaked in 1951 with 15,959 babies, ranked #21.
- It first shows up in the records in 1894.
- 406,375 girls have been named Janice since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Janice per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 5.5Silent1928–45
- 6.5Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 11,913 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Silent: 113,428 babies, 5.49 per 1,000. Boomers: 231,082 babies, 6.45 per 1,000. Gen X: 34,402 babies, 1.35 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,522 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,347 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,626 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Variant of Jane under apparent influence from Alice, Bernice, Eunice, etc., from French Jeanne, from Middle French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Janice, CC BY-SA 4.0.