[3] In addition to the main population center of Vodice, the settlement includes the hamlets of Gornji Konec, Na Vasi (Slovene: Na vasi), Lokarje, Jegriše (or Jegrše), Mesto, Zaprice (German: Sapretz[2]), and Pusence.

[4] Vodice was first attested c. 1118 with reference to its church as in plebe sancte Margarete virginis, and as Wodiz in 1257 (and as Woditç in 1265).

The name may therefore be based on the singular locative form *Vodicě (literally, 'by the small creek'), or may have originally been plural, referring to springs in the area.

[2] The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Margaret and was first mentioned in documents dating to 1118.

The church was damaged in the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake and was rebuilt in entirety from 1896 until 1900 based on plans by the architect Raimund Jeblinger.