Janice
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdʒænəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Janice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the most common given name.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 703(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 773
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 825
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Janice itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #265 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 580 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 703 (inferred from the name graph)
3,125,123 named John, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ioannis in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus, John in GR Greece, Giannis in BR Brazil and Jānis in LV Latvia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Janice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #124 | 3,125,123as John | 1 in 106 | 3.1M | Janice | 580 |
| GR Greece | #1 | 320,751as Ιωάννης | 1 in 33 | 650K | John | 246 |
| BR Brazil | — | 171,850as Jean | 1 in 1.2K | 172K | Giannis | 12 |
| PH Philippines | #148 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | — | Janice | 160 |
| GB United Kingdom | #139 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 773 | 26 | Janice | 262 |
| SE Sweden | — | 69,521as John | 1 in 147 | 70K | Ioannis | 49 |
| LV Latvia | #1 | 43,623as Jānis | 1 in 43 | 44K | Jānis | 63 |
| CY Cyprus | #16 | 13,458as Ιωαννης | 1 in 94 | 13K | Ioannis | 97 |
| SG Singapore | #57 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 703 | — | Janice | 134 |
3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling john. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janice Ruleb. 1931USAmerican actress (1931–2003)
- C. J. Cherryhb. 1942USnot in their usual nameUnited States science fiction and fantasy author
- Janice Raymondb. 1943USAmerican writer and radical feminist
- Jan Brewerb. 1944USnot in their usual nameGovernor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015
- Janice Karmanb. 1954USAmerican actress
- Janice Dickinsonb. 1955USAmerican model and actress
- Janice E. Vossb. 1956USAmerican engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)
- Janice Kimb. 1969USAmerican Go player
- Janice Kawayeb. 1970USAmerican voice actress
- Janice Manb. 1988CNHong Kong actress and model
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 90 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 302K | #169 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29K | #1,121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27K | #887 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 256 | #4,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 227 | #169 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 152 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 100 | #887 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 70 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2019 | 3 | #765 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Janice mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How common is the name Janice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,125,123 people named John in 2020, about 1 in 106 residents.
- How common is Janice compared with other names?
- In the United States, Janice is the 124th most common given name of 2,815,431 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.
- How do you pronounce Janice?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒænəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Janice?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Joan and Juana are forms of the same name in other languages; Janna and Janetta are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Jean and Jane.
- In which country does Janice have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Janice?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/janiceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 124th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.