Janice
Janice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. Its best rank was 21st, in 1951.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 830.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195115,959 births
- Best rank
- #21in 1951
- Since 1894
- 407,532people given the name
The story in the numbers
406,375 girls have been named Janice in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 15,959 births — 0.89% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 83 births in 2024, against 15,959 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1951, and the 1950s alone account for 33%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 36 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,157 boys have also been given it, 0.28% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Janice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 18 | |
| 1900s | 455 | |
| 1910s | 2,941 | |
| 1920s | 11,809 | |
| 1930s | 49,343 | |
| 1940s | 118,892 | |
| 1950s | 133,619 | |
| 1960s | 57,965 | |
| 1970s | 14,834 | |
| 1980s | 7,495 | |
| 1990s | 3,951 | |
| 2000s | 2,807 | |
| 2010s | 1,792 | |
| 2020s | 454 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Janice was the 21st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1951 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Deborah and Barbara. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Janice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glendapeak 1950
- Georgannpeak 1953
- Marciapeak 1951
- Georgiannepeak 1943
- Sherrillpeak 1947
- Patriciapeak 1951
- Deloisepeak 1953
- Rosannpeak 1952
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.