Meaning and history
Elaborated form of Jane, created by Paul Leicester Ford for his 1899 novel Janice Meredith.
20062006: 260 births, rank #996
2007: 286 births, rank #947
2008: 254 births, rank #1,030
2009: 331 births, rank #842
2010: 236 births, rank #1,051
20112011: 192 births, rank #1,244
2012: 192 births, rank #1,257
2013: 188 births, rank #1,264
2014: 178 births, rank #1,326
2015: 198 births, rank #1,238
20162016: 165 births, rank #1,406
2017: 148 births, rank #1,495
2018: 154 births, rank #1,435
2019: 141 births, rank #1,528
2020: 97 births, rank #1,959
20212021: 87 births, rank #2,154
2022: 90 births, rank #2,123
2023: 98 births, rank #2,002
2024: 83 births, rank #2,248
20252025: 70 births, rank #2,514
Janice rose from #948 to #844 for girls between 2007 and 2009. Its highest annual birth count came in 1951, with 15,958 births.