Kandi

Where Kandi comes from

Kandi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1945
    First appearance
    #3,132 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Peak, #744
    198 babies named Kandi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1976
    Kandi Burruss born
    American singer, actress and businesswoman
  4. 1988
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,564.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kandi Burruss · American singer, actress and businesswoman, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.