Entry № 4815 · English origin

Janice Janice — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAN-iss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"God is gracious (Janice on Friends; classic top US name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "god is gracious (janice on friends; classic top us name)".

Janice is the 20th-century English elaboration of Jane — from the Hebrew Yochanan ("God is gracious"). MY... GOD!" was named to TV Guide's list of the 100 greatest TV catchphrases.

God is gracious. MY... GOD!").

The name in its native script.

Janice
Transliteration
Janice
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒæn.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janice stands.

Janice does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Janices before her.

Real people
Janice Dickinson
American model.
born 1955
Janice Voss
American astronaut.
1956 – 2012
Janice Mirikitani
Japanese American poet laureate.
1941 – 2021
In fiction
Janice Litman
Friends.
1994

Names connected to Janice.

The number behind Janice.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janice reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.