Janíce

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Janíce is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 703(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 773
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 825

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Janíce itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,125,123 named John, 2020

#265 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
580 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 703 (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JaníceLatin(measured from records)
ΙωαννηςGreek(measured from records)
ЯнисCyrillic(measured from records)
ג'ניסHebrew(measured from records)
জেনিসBengali(measured from records)
재니스Hangul(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Janice in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 1 more, Ioannis in SE Sweden, CY Cyprus, John in GR Greece and Giannis in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).

Sources 6

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Irish first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Janíce counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Janíce is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#1243,125,123as John1 in 1063.1MJanice580
GR Greece#1320,751as Ιωάννης1 in 33650KJohn246
BR Brazil—171,850as Jean1 in 1.2K172KGiannis12
PH Philippines#148≈130,000 est.≈1 in 825—Janice160
GB United Kingdom#139≈85,000 est.≈1 in 77326Janice262
SE Sweden—69,521as John1 in 14770KIoannis49
LV Latvia#143,623as Jānis1 in 4344KJānis63
CY Cyprus#1613,458as Ιωαννης1 in 9413KIoannis97
SG Singapore#57≈8,800 est.≈1 in 703—Janice134

3,125,123 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling john. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Janíce is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Janice, Jänïcë

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Janíce under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Janíce mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly an altered spelling of English Jannis, a patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
Is Janíce a male or female name?
Janíce is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Janíce have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 million people named John, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Janíce?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,125,123 people named John in 2020, about 1 in 106 residents.
How common is Janíce compared with other names?
In the United States, Janíce is the 124th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Janíce” — the 124th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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