girls:
406.3k births since 1894
#88 (98th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1926
#3447 (25th percentile)
overall:
407.4k births since 1894
#174 (98th percentile)
The name Janice is the #174 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 407,448 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 97.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #88 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 406,291 births since 1894. For boys, it ranks #3,447 (24.8% percentile) for all time with 1,157 births since 1926.
Janice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for girls and 1926 for boys). Birth data for Janice is available in 126 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (126 years for girls and 58 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Janice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janice reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 97.1% percentile (ranked #21) with 8,639 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 8,704 births per million (ranked 96.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janice ranks #854 for girls (9.8% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janice reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #483) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janice".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Janice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Janice is pronounced as JA-nihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JA-nuhs, at 23.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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