Girl · English, from Hebrew
Janice
Say it: JAN-iss
Meaning
An elaboration of Jane (from Hebrew Yohanan 'God is gracious'), popularized by Paul Leicester Ford's novel Janice Meredith (1899).
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Rose after 1899 and peaked in the US in the 1940s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1940s
In the United States
- 407,169 babies given this name since 1894
- At its height in 1946, about 1 in 112 girls
- 97 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Janis, Janyce
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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