Janice
Just 62 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century: most Poles have never met a Janice. The name is Hebrew at root, from a phrase meaning "god is gracious".
Janice Pronunciation
Janice is pronounced yah-NYEE-tse (/jaˈɲit͡sɛ/).
What Janice means
Where Janice comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Janice reaches back to the Hebrew name Yohanan, which meant "god is gracious." That sense passed into John, then into its feminine form Jane, and Janice grew out of Jane as a fuller variant. The meaning held while the shape shifted.
The name owes much of its spread to a book. In 1899 the American writer Paul Leicester Ford published a novel called Janice Meredith, a bestseller about a young woman during the American Revolution. Before that, Janice was rare. Afterward it climbed. By the middle of the twentieth century it ranked among the common girls' names in English-speaking countries.
For a Polish reader the name arrives with an English accent. It has no diminutive of its own here, no local variant. On a class register it would stand apart from Janina and Joanna. Yet its root is the same one behind Jan, the Hebrew word for "god is gracious."
How many people are named Janice
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Janice. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4663 among female names.
Janice as a middle name
Janice is a first name for 62 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1834th, between Ivanka (16) and Kasylda (16).
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#1832 Ilana16
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#1833 Ivanka16
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#1834 Janice16
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#1835 Kasylda16
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#1836 Katerine16