Janice

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Janice is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • GTGuatemala1 in 16
  • CZCzechia1 in 18

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11M ●

across 12 countries

#3 ●

of 16M given names

14 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
659 ●

100M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 18 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

JohnLatin · English●47M records
ΙωαννηςGreek · Greek●989K records
יונהHebrew · Hebrew●95K records
ЯнисCyrillic · Russian●26K records
요한Hangul · Korean●18K records
ᲯონიGeorgian · Georgian●6.8K records
জীবনBengali · Bangla●3.8K records
ዮሐንስEthiopic · Amharic●831 records
โยฮันเนสThai · Thai●161 records
ଜୀବନOdia · Odia●15 records
ՅանArmenian · Armenian●8 records
JoࣩhnArabic · English●1 records
ജവാൻMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
ජීවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

13 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Janice is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#212,961,3007.5M rec.—5.7KJuan239
MX Mexico#35,288,3114.2M rec.—4.7KJuan302
GB United Kingdom#14,533,2514M rec.—1.1KJohn396
BR Brazil#33,430,6084.4M rec.1 in 623.4MJoao248
PE Peru#43,194,6532.3M rec.—555KJuan176
US United States#23,118,62055M rec.1 in 1073.1MJohn659
VE Venezuela#82,400,453870K rec.—21KJuan160
GT Guatemala#32,227,734180K rec.—3.1KJuan142
PH Philippines#32,098,1301.4M rec.—listedJohn240
AU Australia#11,965,7301.7M rec.—570John410
CO Colombia#21,937,062665K rec.—1.2KJuan277
FR France#11,910,4004.1M rec.1 in 361.9MJean474

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English4.1M77%
  • Portuguese462K9%
  • 163K3%
  • Spanish143K3%
  • French36K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,052,59877%
Portuguese462,2909%
162,6783%
Spanish142,8143%
French35,7771%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Janice is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name634K records spelled Janice5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Jânice, Jánice

  • a separate given name180K records spelled Janice2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Jánice

  • French given name39K records spelled Janice4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Jänïcë, Janíce

  • Polish given name17K records spelled Janice12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

    Also written Janîce, Janicé

  • Indonesian given name17K records spelled Janice4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Janice

  • Hungarian given name6.4K records spelled Janice7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Jene, Jené, Jänice, Jenę

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Janice is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • A form of Jane sometimes used in Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, Form of Jane used in Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • English: derivative of JANE , with the addition of the suffix - ice , abstracted from female 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. Variant: Janis. Short form: Jan .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001950200016K · 1951

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Janice in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1894–2025
Yearrecords
18945
189913
190037
190134
190243
190335
190436
190542
190651
190740
190859
190978
191089
1911117
1912142
1913157
1914225
1915285
1916372
1917455
1918510
1919589
1920670
1921732
1922745
1923787
19241,175
19251,510
19261,467
19271,468
19281,565
19291,690
19301,930
19312,287
19322,628
19333,061
19343,588
19354,442
19366,150
19377,768
19388,711
19398,778
19409,318
194110,061
194210,286
194310,651
19449,733
194510,781
194614,039
194715,409
194814,162
194914,453
195015,012
195115,958
195214,978
195314,627
195413,505
195513,178
195613,017
195711,968
195810,888
195910,489
19609,620
19618,727
19627,822
19637,074
19646,161
19655,029
19664,345
19673,514
19683,043
19692,631
19702,331
19712,144
19721,713
19731,474
19741,323
19751,310
19761,155
19771,143
19781,162
19791,078
19801,004
1981890
1982880
1983772
1984758
1985688
1986657
1987669
1988631
1989546
1990514
1991485
1992462
1993450
1994420
1995362
1996338
1997311
1998311
1999298
2000310
2001273
2002325
2003245
2004285
2005238
2006260
2007286
2008254
2009331
2010236
2011192
2012192
2013188
2014178
2015198
2016165
2017148
2018154
2019141
202097
202187
202290
202398
202483
202570

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 128 years between 1894–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Janice Rule, b. 1931C. J. Cherryh, b. 1942Janice Raymond, b. 1943Jan Brewer, b. 1944Janice Karman, b. 1954Janice Dickinson, b. 1955Janice E. Voss, b. 1956Janice Kim, b. 1969Janice Kawaye, b. 1970Janice Man, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 88 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Janice
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020302K#169
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—29K#1,121
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202227K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—27K#887
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024985#2,763
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020666#36,198
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—663#2,682
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000627#34,210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010600#37,180
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—409#2,446
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—407#5,266
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025379#259

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 836 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Janice?
We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Janice (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Janice have the most bearers?
Janice is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
How common is Janice compared with other names?
In Argentina, Janice is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Janice a male or female name?
Janice is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Janice mean?
Recorded meaning: Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Janice” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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