Janice — #2246 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Janice

The Social Security Administration has registered 406,375 babies named Janice between 1894 and 2024, spanning 131 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Janice currently holds the #2246 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 15,959 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Janice performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 133,619 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Janice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27,080 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Janice in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Janice 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 406,375 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.