as a First Name
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.
| 114th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 408,977
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Janice per capita
- 1946
- marked the height of its popularity
100.00%
0.00%
69%
55+
55+
28%
30-54
30-54
2%
13-29
13-29
1%
0-12
0-12
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