Candus

Peak · girls
1953 · 13 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
241
since 1944

Candus over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Candus has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #3,106, 1953girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1991#11,5096
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1989#8,7618
1988#7,11110
1987#8,7787
1986#9,5456
1985#6,45710
1984#6,8109
1983#6,21210
1982#5,53412
1981#7,4098
1980#8,1787
1979#6,18910
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1972#7,2926
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1967#6,8045
1966#5,2737
1965#5,2897
1964#6,0096
1963#5,8916
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1952#4,4837
1951#4,0118
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First appearance
1944

The first year at least five girls were named Candus! It came in at #4,574, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1944–1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Candus is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Candus in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Candus
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1991
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1944
  • Peaked 1953 at #3,106 (13 births)
  • Births halved by 1954, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 141,110
  • Highest: 1 in 141,110 girls born in 1982 were named Candus (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 312,501 girls born in 1991 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,106 in 1953, was only 1 in 144,715 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 36.1% of all girls named Candus (87) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s18#4,235 (1949)#4,409
1950s50#3,106 (1953)#4,419
1960s45#5,168 (1960)#5,678
1970s35#6,006 (1971)#7,168
1980s87#5,534 (1982)#7,480
1990s6#11,509 (1991)#11,509

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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