Janice f
English: derivative of JANE (SEE Jane), with the addition of the suffix -ice, abstracted from female names such as CANDICE (SEE Candice) and BERNICE (SEE 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.
Variant: Janis.
Short form: Jan.
First names dictionary. 2012.