Janice
Janice is a girl's name that peaked in 1951, when it was the 21st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,514th. About 273,000 Janices are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Janice boys named Janice
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 407,605
- Estimated living today
- 273,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1951
- Best rank
- 21st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,514th
- First recorded
- 1894
- Girls / boys
- 406,448 / 1,157
How old the living Janices are
born that year still alive today
Of the 407,605 babies given the name since 1894, about 273,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 2,900 of them are children and 200,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
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, from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה, the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן which produced John and its many doublets. As a placeholder name, cf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Janices
- Janice Dickinson (born 1955)American model and actress
- Janice E. Voss (1956–2012)American engineer and NASA astronaut
- Janice Rule (1931–2003)American actress
- Janice Rankin (born 1972)Scottish and British curler
- Janice Cayman (born 1988)Belgian footballer
- Janice Tjen (born 2002)Indonesian tennis player
- Janice Lawrence Braxton (born 1962)American basketball player
- Janice Pariat (born 1953)Indian writer
People named Janice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Janice is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Janice is most concentrated in North Dakota (2.0×), South Dakota (1.8×), Iowa (1.7×), Nebraska (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1951
The most popular girls’ names the year Janice peaked:
Janice elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Janice | 1,881 | 22nd |
| Ireland girls | Janice | 1,105 | 117th |
| France girls | Janice | 1,075 | 955th |
| Scotland girls | Janice | 458 | 104th |
| England and Wales girls | Janice | 326 | 1,584th |
| Belgium girls | Janice | 76 | 533rd |
| France boys | Janice | 5 | 4,088th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Janice | 3 | 358th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Janice: rank by region
In 2000, Janice was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Janice | 648 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Janice among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Janice | 27 | 51 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Janice lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 407 women called Janice were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Janice | 61 | 0.059 | 1,195 |
| Almería | Janice | 17 | 0.045 | 1,365 |
| Málaga | Janice | 34 | 0.037 | 1,419 |
| Palmas, Las | Janice | 19 | 0.032 | 2,386 |
| Balears, Illes | Janice | 18 | 0.029 | 1,902 |
| Murcia | Janice | 16 | 0.020 | 1,986 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Janice against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.