Kandy
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1970 at #4,724
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1965 · 193 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,306since 1944
Kandy over time
Rank among girls' names. Kandy has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | — | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | — | |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | — | |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,570 | 20 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,508 | 23 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 | — | |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,419 | 17 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,931 | 37 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,931 | 35 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,360 | 44 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,344 | 43 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,907 | 54 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,653 | 69 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,809 | 61 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,502 | 79 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,482 | 80 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,314 | 91 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,247 | 96 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,036 | 119 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,074 | 109 | — | |
| 1974 | #984 | 124 | — | |
| 1973 | #947 | 127 | — | |
| 1972 | #874 | 146 | — | |
| 1971 | #911 | 143 | — | |
| 1970 | #833 | 164 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #814 | 159 | — | |
| 1968 | #837 | 148 | — | |
| 1967 | #865 | 137 | — | |
| 1966 | #794 | 154 | — | |
| 1965 | #708 | 193 | — | |
| 1964 | #811 | 166 | — | |
| 1963 | #805 | 166 | — | |
| 1962 | #789 | 173 | — | |
| 1961 | #755 | 190 | — | |
| 1960 | #743 | 188 | — | |
| 1959 | #727 | 192 | — | |
| 1958 | #799 | 158 | — | |
| 1957 | #741 | 181 | — | |
| 1956 | #766 | 163 | — | |
| 1955 | #858 | 128 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,033 | 90 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,078 | 80 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,185 | 64 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,277 | 53 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,183 | 61 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,265 | 52 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,267 | 52 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,012 | 76 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,165 | 54 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,543 | 28 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,511 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kandy! It came in at #2,511, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017–2020, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Kandy is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Idaho#255 · 1 in 1,285
- Iowa#364 · 1 in 3,518
- Kansas#375 · 1 in 3,002
- Indiana#409 · 1 in 3,875
- Pennsylvania#518 · 1 in 6,980
Best ever in a state: #218 in South Dakota, 1959.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #255 | 5 | 1 in 1,285 |
| Iowa | #364 | 8 | 1 in 3,518 |
| Kansas | #375 | 7 | 1 in 3,002 |
| Indiana | #409 | 13 | 1 in 3,875 |
| Pennsylvania | #518 | 16 | 1 in 6,980 |
| Ohio | #536 | 15 | 1 in 7,012 |
| Michigan | #579 | 11 | 1 in 8,028 |
| Illinois | #627 | 13 | 1 in 8,278 |
| California | #675 | 22 | 1 in 7,848 |
| Texas | #903 | 10 | 1 in 11,339 |
| New York | #1,175 | 6 | 1 in 27,950 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Kandy
- 269 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #13,208)
- 3,211 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #13,208)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 1955 (#1,033 → #858)
- Biggest drop: 90 spots in 1975 (#984 → #1,074)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 1965 at #708 (193 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1955–1974
- Highest: 1 in 9,146 girls born in 1965 were named Kandy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.5% of all girls named Kandy (1,674) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 275 | #1,012 (1947) | #1,461 |
| 1950s | 1,170 | #727 (1959) | #965 |
| 1960s | 1,674 | #708 (1965) | #792 |
| 1970s | 1,199 | #833 (1970) | #1,070 |
| 1980s | 505 | #1,502 (1980) | #2,224 |
| 1990s | 196 | #3,503 (1992) | #5,337 |
| 2000s | 178 | #4,981 (2000) | #6,841 |
| 2010s | 85 | #6,148 (2011) | #10,464 |
| 2020s | 24 | #12,206 (2021) | #13,521 |
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.
Kandy in 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 10,755 of them was named Kandy, which outranked 89.9% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).