Meaning not yet researched.
Candace: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #102 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #102 in 1984; #3,173 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Candace in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,173 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #102.
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Candace: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #102 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 2,848 (1982).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Candace, making it the 3,173rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 482 places from #3,655 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 42 girls named Candace in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #102, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,848, in 1982. For comparison, it was #2,104 in 2015 and #172 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Candace in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 8 babies. In all, 85,097 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 25,268 babies named Candace.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 647 US girls were named Candace; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kandace (6,323 babies since 1880), Candice (68,139 babies since 1880), Kandice (6,823 babies since 1880) and Candyce (3,014 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kandyce, Candiace and Candece are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Candy and Dacey.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kandyce (1,428), Candiace (94), Candece (33), Candic (11), Candiece (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,655 | — | — |
| 2023 | 54 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,640 | — | — |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,506 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,363 | — | — |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 2015 | 92 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2009 | 198 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 2008 | 217 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 2007 | 254 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2005 | 269 | #926 | — | — |
| 2004 | 307 | #817 | — | — |
| 2003 | 341 | #745 | — | — |
| 2002 | 330 | #739 | — | — |
| 2001 | 339 | #720 | — | — |
| 2000 | 421 | #600 | — | — |
| 1999 | 465 | #542 | — | — |
| 1998 | 535 | #480 | — | — |
| 1997 | 625 | #418 | — | — |
| 1996 | 760 | #362 | — | — |
| 1995 | 967 | #288 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,100 | #254 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,309 | #215 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,661 | #186 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,936 | #153 | 5 | #8,373 |
| 1990 | 2,162 | #142 | 7 | #6,500 |
| 1989 | 2,270 | #133 | 13 | #4,052 |
| 1988 | 2,421 | #117 | 6 | #6,537 |
| 1987 | 2,329 | #120 | 8 | #5,037 |
| 1986 | 2,459 | #114 | 10 | #4,168 |
| 1985 | 2,707 | #104 | 9 | #4,375 |
| 1984 | 2,668 | #102 | 16 | #2,839 |
| 1983 | 2,698 | #104 | 10 | #3,914 |
| 1982 | 2,848 | #103 | 11 | #3,722 |
| 1981 | 2,581 | #118 | 6 | #5,594 |
| 1980 | 2,187 | #134 | 11 | #3,643 |
| 1979 | 1,594 | #173 | 6 | #5,448 |
| 1978 | 1,326 | #196 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,140 | #217 | 5 | #5,963 |
| 1976 | 1,211 | #201 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,123 | #221 | 6 | #4,869 |
| 1974 | 1,155 | #223 | — | — |
| 1973 | 1,132 | #223 | — | — |
| 1972 | 1,254 | #223 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,308 | #226 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,427 | #220 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,298 | #234 | 9 | #3,091 |
| 1968 | 1,179 | #237 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,118 | #250 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,220 | #239 | — | — |
| 1965 | 969 | #279 | — | — |
| 1964 | 837 | #327 | — | — |
| 1963 | 863 | #318 | — | — |
| 1962 | 803 | #329 | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1961 | 742 | #349 | — | — |
| 1960 | 843 | #325 | — | — |
| 1959 | 907 | #304 | — | — |
| 1958 | 846 | #317 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,156 | #252 | 6 | #3,615 |
| 1956 | 1,404 | #216 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,413 | #214 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,555 | #198 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,753 | #180 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,835 | #171 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,734 | #173 | 5 | #3,788 |
| 1950 | 1,648 | #172 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,589 | #174 | 5 | #3,761 |
| 1948 | 1,446 | #190 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,317 | #204 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,001 | #227 | — | — |
| 1945 | 632 | #274 | — | — |
| 1944 | 307 | #410 | — | — |
| 1943 | 233 | #484 | — | — |
| 1942 | 129 | #658 | — | — |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,874 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,447 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1894 | 13 | #858 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #866 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #685 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).