Meaning not yet researched.
Kandy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #708 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #708 in 1965; #14,033 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kandy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,033 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #708.
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Kandy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #708 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 193 (1965).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Kandy, making it the 14,033rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 296 places from #14,329 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 girls named Kandy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #708, reached in 1965. That year also had the most girls given the name: 193. For comparison, it was #17,772 in 2015 and #1,188 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kandy in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 13 babies. In all, 5,311 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,674 babies named Kandy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 31 US girls were named Kandy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 7. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Candy (28,625 babies since 1880), Candi (7,356 babies since 1880) and Kandi (5,547 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 Kandy 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 | 6 | #14,033 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,329 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,340 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,832 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,593 | — | — |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,772 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,572 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,344 | — | — |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,424 | — | — |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,240 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,058 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,624 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,329 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,842 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,996 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,670 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,016 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,779 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,004 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,692 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,065 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,453 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,691 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,831 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,825 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,914 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,060 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1974 | 124 | #989 | — | — |
| 1973 | 127 | #950 | — | — |
| 1972 | 146 | #875 | — | — |
| 1971 | 143 | #913 | — | — |
| 1970 | 164 | #835 | 5 | #5,090 |
| 1969 | 159 | #814 | — | — |
| 1968 | 148 | #839 | — | — |
| 1967 | 137 | #866 | — | — |
| 1966 | 154 | #796 | — | — |
| 1965 | 193 | #708 | — | — |
| 1964 | 166 | #813 | — | — |
| 1963 | 166 | #806 | — | — |
| 1962 | 173 | #791 | — | — |
| 1961 | 190 | #755 | — | — |
| 1960 | 188 | #744 | — | — |
| 1959 | 192 | #728 | — | — |
| 1958 | 158 | #800 | — | — |
| 1957 | 181 | #742 | — | — |
| 1956 | 163 | #766 | — | — |
| 1955 | 128 | #860 | — | — |
| 1954 | 90 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1953 | 80 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1952 | 64 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1950 | 61 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,567 | — | — |
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).