Okay. So you know how the wiki says that Janice was called Jaydee in the pilot episode? I overthought about that and now I have a new headcanon:
Janice's mother was also named Janice, and she named Janice after herself before she gave birth to her. But when she died, her father couldn't call Janice "Janice" without being reminded of his wife and getting upset, so he started calling her "JD" (her initials), or "Jaydee".
Melrose picked up on this and goes as far as to tell Janice that she doesn't deserve to be named after their mother, and other mean things like that.
Janice didn't like being called Jaydee because it reminds her of how her father and Melrose feel about her. That she makes them upset just by having been born (and "killing" her mother in the process).
But now that she lives in Candle Cove, everyone calls her Janice.










