Janice

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Extended form of Jane [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Janice
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janis
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Janissa
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Danish Finish
Jannice
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Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Janice
Genitive: Janices
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Janice
Genitive: Janicen
Partitive: Janicea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Janice
Genitive: Janices
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Janice
Genitive: Janices

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Probably invented by Paul Leicester Ford as the name of the heroine of the novel Janice Meredith (1899)

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 55 people were named Janice (percentage of first or only given name: 51 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[7]
152 233 152 233 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
110
n.a.
109
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
98
n.a.
98 0 0
Iceland Iceland[9]
5 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
116
n.a.
116
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Janice.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  5. 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/