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Janicia

Gender
Girl
Say it
juh-NEE-shuh
Origin
Modern

Janicia is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Janicia come from?

Modern: modern invented name, perhaps from Janice

Is Janicia a girl's or a boy's name?

Janicia is a girls' name.

How popular is Janicia in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

Half of all the girls named Janicia in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.

1987Busiest: 13 in 19982019
Janicia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20195#15,532
20180–
20170–
20160–
20155#16,413
20148#11,925
20130–
20126#14,956
20110–
20100–
20090–
200810#10,802
20075#17,630
200610#10,606
20055#16,455
20047#12,754
20037#12,401
200210#9,476
20018#11,013
20009#9,867
19998#10,338
199813#7,099
199711#7,737
19968#9,576
19958#9,548
199410#8,116
199311#7,491
199212#7,060
199112#6,969
19906#11,403
19898#8,755
19886#10,381
19876#9,820

Names like Janicia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Janicia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/janicia, updated 20 October 2026.