Meaning not yet researched.
Candy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #278 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #278 in 1969; #4,576 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Candy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,576 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #278.
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Candy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #278 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 1,044 (1970).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Candy, making it the 4,576th most common girls’ name of the year, down 805 places from #3,771 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 40 girls named Candy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #278, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,044, in 1970. For comparison, it was #3,186 in 2015 and #489 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Candy in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 28,625 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 7,573 babies named Candy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 400 US girls were named Candy; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Candi (7,356 babies since 1880), Kandi (5,547 babies since 1880), Kandy (5,311 babies since 1880) and Candie (2,985 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Candee, Candia and Candye are summarised on this page.
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: Candee (886), Candia (210), Candye (11).
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.
No nicknames listed for Candy in the open dataset we use.
Candy is listed as a nickname for Candace.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,939 | — | — |
| 2019 | 45 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2007 | 119 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 2006 | 120 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2003 | 99 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2001 | 112 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1997 | 96 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1996 | 113 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1995 | 96 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1994 | 146 | #1,205 | 5 | #8,987 |
| 1993 | 135 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1992 | 146 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1991 | 178 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1990 | 199 | #948 | 5 | #8,292 |
| 1989 | 219 | #850 | — | — |
| 1988 | 223 | #816 | 5 | #7,436 |
| 1987 | 219 | #799 | — | — |
| 1986 | 218 | #778 | 6 | #6,036 |
| 1985 | 241 | #715 | — | — |
| 1984 | 321 | #573 | — | — |
| 1983 | 365 | #521 | — | — |
| 1982 | 388 | #516 | — | — |
| 1981 | 397 | #505 | 5 | #6,401 |
| 1980 | 438 | #481 | 7 | #5,001 |
| 1979 | 502 | #418 | — | — |
| 1978 | 505 | #409 | — | — |
| 1977 | 531 | #394 | — | — |
| 1976 | 557 | #371 | 9 | #3,752 |
| 1975 | 646 | #342 | 7 | #4,376 |
| 1974 | 662 | #333 | 11 | #3,158 |
| 1973 | 748 | #311 | — | — |
| 1972 | 857 | #293 | 7 | #4,024 |
| 1971 | 835 | #318 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,044 | #281 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,015 | #278 | 8 | #3,347 |
| 1968 | 755 | #316 | 10 | #2,754 |
| 1967 | 581 | #376 | — | — |
| 1966 | 655 | #353 | — | — |
| 1965 | 709 | #341 | — | — |
| 1964 | 715 | #353 | — | — |
| 1963 | 765 | #342 | — | — |
| 1962 | 751 | #346 | — | — |
| 1961 | 782 | #336 | — | — |
| 1960 | 827 | #327 | — | — |
| 1959 | 990 | #285 | — | — |
| 1958 | 884 | #303 | — | — |
| 1957 | 869 | #312 | — | — |
| 1956 | 840 | #306 | — | — |
| 1955 | 495 | #396 | — | — |
| 1954 | 437 | #414 | — | — |
| 1953 | 375 | #445 | — | — |
| 1952 | 300 | #485 | 5 | #3,809 |
| 1951 | 254 | #520 | — | — |
| 1950 | 272 | #489 | — | — |
| 1949 | 290 | #473 | — | — |
| 1948 | 365 | #414 | — | — |
| 1947 | 517 | #352 | 5 | #3,789 |
| 1946 | 335 | #420 | — | — |
| 1945 | 198 | #515 | — | — |
| 1944 | 91 | #802 | — | — |
| 1943 | 73 | #907 | — | — |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,589 | — | — |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,951 | 5 | #3,743 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,454 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,619 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,706 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,907 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,552 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,887 | — | — |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,618 | — | — |
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).