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Janice

Girls' name · Mid-century

Living in the US
~284,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,514 among girls
Births in 2025
70 407,605 since 1880
Typical age
71 years, median

Janice popularity over time

Janice rank by birth year, 1894–2025Janice ranked #1,485 in 1894 and #2,514 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #21, in 1951.#100#1,000#2,514best #21 in 19511920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1894–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1951 is the peak year for Janice, with 15,981 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1894. Janice has spent 36 years inside the national top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #2,514, with 70 births that year. The ten-year change is -65%. It slipped 266 places against the previous year.

Babies named Janice per yearPeaks at 15,981 births in 1951.15,981 in 195101920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Janice?

Roughly 284,500 Janices are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 407,605 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Janice?

Median age among living Janices: 71. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Janice a mid-century name.

Your Janice

Ages of living people named JaniceHalf of living Janices are older than 71 and half younger.median 71020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Janice is most common

New York uses the name 2.1× as often as the country as a whole.

Where Janice is used more than average2 states use the name Janice more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.1× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: 2.0× the national rateCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Janice is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
New York 118 2.1×
California 242 2.0×

Janice in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Janice ranked #2,138 in 2025 on 13 births. That is 3.3× higher than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Janice 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. similar use of John and Jack and earlier use of Joan in the same role.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Janice

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Janice Dickinson American model and actress 1955 34
Janice E. Voss American engineer and NASA astronaut 1956–2012 32
Janice Rule American actress 1931–2003 24
Janice Rankin Scottish and British curler 1972 16
Janice Cayman Belgian footballer 1988 15
Janice Tjen Indonesian tennis player 2002 15
Janice Hahn American politician 1952 14
Janice Lawrence Braxton American basketball player 1962 14
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Janice

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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