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Chauncey? Janice...?
You didn't state your gender.If male, I would guess that it's a variant of CHAUNCEY.If female, I'm guessing that it's a familiar form of JAN or JANICE, similar to NAN > NANCY.
"Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth." Ps. 127:4
JoHannah Jubilee, BenJudah Gabriel, Aaron Josiah, Jordan Uriah,
Maranatha Nissiah, (Anastasia Nike, 1992-1992), Jeshua David,
Shiloh Joshana, Elijah Daniel, Hezekiah Nathaniel, Zephaniah Joseph

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On what grounds would you say it's a variation of Chauncey?
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QuoteOn what grounds would you say it's a variation of Chauncey?

It is not unusual for an unvoiced |ch| to be corrupted to a voiced |j| sound. There is further support in that Chauncey is a variation of Chance, which rhymes with the |Jance| part of the name. |-y| in both cases would likely be the familiar/diminutive form of the names.In naming cultures that are based, primarily, on euphony, there is no compulsion to maintain spelling and pronunciation standards.See LATHAN for a more extreme example.Admittedly, it IS a SWAG.* Feel free to offer other/better ideas...*Scientific, Wildly Assumptive Guess...

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