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Meaning & Origins
Derivative of Jane, with the addition of the suffix -ice, abstracted from girls' names such as Candice and Bernice. It seems to have been first used as the name of the heroine of the novel Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford, published in 1899.
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English, Scottish, and northern Irish: distinguishing name (Middle English yunge, yonge ‘young’), for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, usually distinguishing a younger brother or a son. In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge.
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Nicknames & variations
Janis, Janica, Janiece, Janise, Janika, James, Janic, Janisha, Janique, Janisse
Youngblood, Younger, Yount, Youngs, Yeung, Youngman, Youngberg, Younce, Younker, Youngquist
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