Fewer than five US girls were named Candida in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #686, reached in 1971. That year also had the most girls given the name: 222. For comparison, it was #16,960 in 2015 and #1,732 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Candida in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 7 babies. In all, 3,580 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,392 babies named Candida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6 US girls were named Candida; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 6.
Rarer spellings such as Kandida are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.