Jeanice
Feminine
Jeanice is a respelling of a name that was itself invented, which puts it two removes from anything inherited. The name underneath was made up for a historical novel at the very end of the nineteenth century, and this version then dresses its front half in French.
How old is the name Jeanice?
Jeanice first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Jeanice alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 900 people named Jeanice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeanice most popular?
Jeanice peaked in 1937, reaching #1630 nationally. See the whole 1937 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Janice to Jeanice
Our story of Jeanice
A name invented for a book has a strange career. It arrives complete, with no ancestors, and if the book is popular enough it enters the general stock within a decade and is then treated exactly like a name a thousand years old: shortened, respelled, compounded, given to grandchildren who have never heard of the novel. Within two generations nobody can tell it from an inherited name, and the only evidence that it was made is the flat absence of it in every record before the publication date. This one has been through the full sequence. It was coined, it spread, it was clipped and respelled, and this version puts the French spelling of Jean on the front of it, which adds a look of age to a name that has none.
Meaningnot established
Not established
There is no meaning to give. The name it respells was coined by a novelist, probably out of Jane and an ending that sounded right, and coined names do not acquire meanings by being used. The French spelling on the front is a visual borrowing and does not import the French name's sense, which in any case belongs to a man's name and not a woman's.
How the name formed
- Janice
- Jeanice
Pronouncing Jeanice
juh-NEESE
Two syllables with the stress at the back. Some families say JEE-niss with the weight at the front, which is closer to the name it was respelled from; the spelling supports both.
Nicknames for Jeanice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 195933 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1630reached in 1937
- Change vs 2009
- −37.5%5 in 2011, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jeanices among us
people named Jeanice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jeanice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Every sound in it is ordinary English, so it is never mispronounced twice.
- Jean is a complete, established name sitting in the front half.
- Final stress gives the name a clean finish that the standard spelling does not have.
- Janice, Janis and Jenice are all in use for closely related sounds and will be substituted.
- The French spelling suggests a French origin that is not there.
- There is no meaning available, because the name at the bottom of it was made rather than inherited.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jeanices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Jeanice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeanice in 2025?
- Jeanice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jeanice with classmates?
- Jeanice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with J, all years combined.
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