Janyce

Where Janyce comes from

The dictionaries list Janyce as a given name — a female given name, variant of Janice — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1938
    Peak, #775
    81 babies named Janyce — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,796.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Janice.
Namesakes

No widely known Janyce turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.