Janice

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | 313 words | Copyright

Janice ♀ Derivative of Jane, with the addition of the suffix -ice, abstracted from girls' names such as Candice and Bernice. It seems to have been first used as the name of the heroine of the novel Janice Meredith by Paul Leicester Ford, published in 1899.

Variants: Janis(e); Jannice.
Short form: Jan.

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