Janise
Janise was the 11332nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 8 babies. Its best year was 1953, when it ranked 1320th with 54 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 3,153 places. More babies were named Janise in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Meaning (as Janice) variant of Jane · English, Hebrew
- Rank in 2025
- #11,332 girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8girls
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 195354 babies
- Total since 1880
- 2,084babies recorded
What does the name Janise mean?
Janise is a spelling of Janice, pronounced the same way, so it shares Janice's meaning and origin.
Janice is a variant of Jane, formed under the influence of names such as Alice, Bernice and Eunice, as Wiktionary notes. Jane comes from Latin Johanna, the feminine of John, from Hebrew Yoḥanan 'YHWH is gracious'. Janice was popularized by Paul Leicester Ford's novel Janice Meredith (1899) and was common in the US in the 1940s and 1950s.
Jane (English, “from Johanna”)יוֹחָנָן (Yoḥanan) (Biblical Hebrew, “YHWH is gracious”)
How sure is this? Well established.
Related names: Jane, Janis, Janet, Jan.
See also: Hebrew names, names that mean God, names that mean grace.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'Janice', Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0; facts restated, no text reused)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, ed. S. L. Uckelman, Edition 2023 no. 1, s.v. 'Joan', DMNES (Durham University)
Janise popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Babies (girls) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #11,332 | 8 |
| 2020 | — | — |
| 2010 | #6,484 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,460 | 27 |
| 1990 | #2,582 | 46 |
| 1980 | #3,089 | 28 |
| 1970 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1960 | #1,906 | 36 |
| 1950 | #1,661 | 32 |
| 1940 | #4,655 | 5 |
| 1930 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — |
| 1910 | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — |
| 1890 | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — |
How popular is Janise, counting every spelling?
Janise is a spelling of Janice, a name family that had 88 girls in 2025 across its spellings. Together these spellings went to 88 girls in 2025.
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Janise?
8 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Janise (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Janise born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 1,057 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Janise.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Janise?
About 1,800 people born in the US named Janise are alive today, with a median age of 44; half are between 30 and 65. That makes Janise mostly worn by adults in their thirties to fifties. The wide spread shows a name popular in two different eras.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Janise: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Janise, they share its era and feel.
Questions about the name Janise
What does Janise mean?
Janise is a spelling of Janice, which means “variant of Jane” (English, Hebrew origin). Certainty: well established.
How popular is the name Janise?
Janise was the 11332nd most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 8 babies. Its best year was 1953, when it ranked 1320th with 54 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 3,153 places. More babies were named Janise in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Is Janise a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Janise in the US.