Kandace
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 279 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,323since 1945
Kandace over time
Rank among girls' names. Kandace has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 |
| 2022 | #7,631 | 14 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #3,298 | 50 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 |
| 2006 | #2,669 | 67 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 |
| 2004 | #2,396 | 71 |
| 2003 | #2,439 | 67 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 |
| 2001 | #2,304 | 69 |
| 2000 | #2,076 | 79 |
| 1999 | #2,073 | 74 |
| 1998 | #1,845 | 83 |
| 1997 | #1,496 | 109 |
| 1996 | #1,519 | 105 |
| 1995 | #1,229 | 139 |
| 1994 | #1,105 | 162 |
| 1993 | #889 | 217 |
| 1992 | #949 | 203 |
| 1991 | #839 | 240 |
| 1990 | #754 | 275 |
| 1989 | #759 | 257 |
| 1988 | #691 | 279 |
| 1987 | #741 | 244 |
| 1986 | #891 | 184 |
| 1985 | #858 | 187 |
| 1984 | #798 | 199 |
| 1983 | #918 | 162 |
| 1982 | #1,010 | 146 |
| 1981 | #955 | 153 |
| 1980 | #1,009 | 144 |
| 1979 | #1,471 | 81 |
| 1978 | #1,511 | 74 |
| 1977 | #1,596 | 67 |
| 1976 | #1,619 | 61 |
| 1975 | #1,604 | 61 |
| 1974 | #1,532 | 63 |
| 1973 | #1,527 | 61 |
| 1972 | #1,414 | 69 |
| 1971 | #1,389 | 76 |
| 1970 | #1,407 | 74 |
| 1969 | #1,385 | 69 |
| 1968 | #1,539 | 55 |
| 1967 | #1,506 | 55 |
| 1966 | #1,201 | 80 |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 |
| 1961 | #1,872 | 38 |
| 1960 | #1,789 | 40 |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 |
| 1958 | #1,791 | 37 |
| 1957 | #1,550 | 48 |
| 1956 | #1,378 | 57 |
| 1955 | #1,347 | 56 |
| 1954 | #1,836 | 32 |
| 1953 | #1,424 | 47 |
| 1952 | #1,713 | 33 |
| 1951 | #1,528 | 38 |
| 1950 | #1,602 | 34 |
| 1949 | #1,437 | 41 |
| 1948 | #1,520 | 37 |
| 1947 | #1,790 | 29 |
| 1946 | #1,583 | 31 |
| 1945 | #2,458 | 13 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Kandace! It came in at #2,458, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Kandace is popular in 1994
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#432 · 1 in 2,764
- Kentucky#443 · 1 in 3,332
- Oklahoma#476 · 1 in 2,698
- Louisiana#614 · 1 in 3,736
- North Carolina#614 · 1 in 4,769
Best ever in a state: #201 in Arkansas, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #432 | 6 | 1 in 2,764 |
| Kentucky | #443 | 6 | 1 in 3,332 |
| Oklahoma | #476 | 6 | 1 in 2,698 |
| Louisiana | #614 | 6 | 1 in 3,736 |
| North Carolina | #614 | 8 | 1 in 4,769 |
| Missouri | #628 | 6 | 1 in 4,944 |
| Michigan | #633 | 11 | 1 in 4,928 |
| Indiana | #675 | 6 | 1 in 5,463 |
| Virginia | #693 | 6 | 1 in 5,877 |
| Texas | #761 | 24 | 1 in 5,666 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,163 | 5 | 1 in 12,987 |
| Illinois | #1,168 | 7 | 1 in 10,605 |
| Florida | #1,277 | 6 | 1 in 12,420 |
| California | #1,537 | 15 | 1 in 16,167 |
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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 Kandace
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 5,607 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #11,932)
- 6,099 spots since 2015 (#5,833 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 150 spots in 1987 (#891 → #741)
- Biggest drop: 216 spots in 1994 (#889 → #1,105)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1988 at #691 (279 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1983–1993
- Highest: 1 in 6,383 girls born in 1988 were named Kandace (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.9% of all girls named Kandace (1,955) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 151 | #1,437 (1949) | #1,758 |
| 1950s | 412 | #1,347 (1955) | #1,622 |
| 1960s | 516 | #1,201 (1966) | #1,614 |
| 1970s | 687 | #1,389 (1971) | #1,507 |
| 1980s | 1,955 | #691 (1988) | #863 |
| 1990s | 1,607 | #754 (1990) | #1,270 |
| 2000s | 646 | #2,076 (2000) | #2,644 |
| 2010s | 273 | #3,711 (2012) | #5,215 |
| 2020s | 76 | #6,325 (2020) | #8,966 |
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.
Kandace in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
More about 1994
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1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 11,023 of them was named Kandace, which outranked 93.0% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,100Fernanda163
- #1,100Geena163
- #1,100Shannen163
- #1,105Kandace162
- #1,105Gillian162
- #1,105Jasmyne162
- #1,105Jolene162
- #1,115Abbigail161
- #1,115Brandee161
- #1,115Charmaine161
Tied with 9 names at #1,105; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.