Janica — girls' name

What the Data Says About Janica

The Social Security Administration has registered 593 babies named Janica between 1951 and 2017, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janica currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janica performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 178 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Janica shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Janica in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janica in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 593 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.