Meaning not yet researched.
Kandace: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #691 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #691 in 1988; #12,522 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kandace in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,522 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #691.
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Kandace: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #691 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 279 (1988).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Kandace, making it the 12,522nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,806 places from #14,328 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Kandace in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #691, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 279. For comparison, it was #5,932 in 2015 and #1,613 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kandace in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 13 babies. In all, 6,323 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,955 babies named Kandace.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 155 US girls were named Kandace; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Candace (85,097 babies since 1880), Kandice (6,823 babies since 1880), Candice (68,139 babies since 1880) and Candyce (3,014 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kandace in the open dataset we use.
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 | 7 | #12,522 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,328 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,539 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,831 | — | — |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,257 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,483 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,073 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,654 | — | — |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,888 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,932 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,317 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,398 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,752 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,292 | — | — |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,110 | — | — |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1997 | 109 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,233 | — | — |
| 1994 | 162 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1993 | 217 | #890 | — | — |
| 1992 | 203 | #951 | — | — |
| 1991 | 240 | #840 | — | — |
| 1990 | 275 | #754 | — | — |
| 1989 | 257 | #760 | — | — |
| 1988 | 279 | #691 | — | — |
| 1987 | 244 | #742 | — | — |
| 1986 | 184 | #893 | — | — |
| 1985 | 187 | #860 | — | — |
| 1984 | 199 | #799 | — | — |
| 1983 | 162 | #923 | — | — |
| 1982 | 146 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1981 | 153 | #962 | — | — |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,518 | — | — |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1966 | 80 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,530 | — | — |
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).