Candance
Candance was last recorded in 2008, when 9 babies were given it; 2,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Candance and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candance by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candance?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,773, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
93 babies in 1981, the peak
Candance peaked in 1981, when 93 girls were given it, #1,342 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #11,773 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,129 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,626 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,083 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,036 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,578 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,853 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,813 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,009 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,899 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 11 | #8,092 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,045 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,312 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,231 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,542 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,160 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,220 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,738 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,345 | 27.9 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,714 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,617 | 44.9 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,900 | 34.5 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,637 | 42.0 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,860 | 34.9 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,788 | 35.6 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,497 | 45.5 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,491 | 47.2 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,342 | 55.8 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,659 | 41.6 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,796 | 37.4 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,939 | 32.6 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,164 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,842 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,141 | 27.4 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,618 | 39.5 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,023 | 27.4 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,923 | 28.3 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,392 | 45.7 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,330 | 45.2 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,871 | 26.1 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,780 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,907 | 23.0 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,648 | 27.2 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,116 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,682 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,895 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,363 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,471 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,314 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,463 | 10.9 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,389 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,663 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,898 | 15.9 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,159 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,385 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,788 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,980 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,887 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,260 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,704 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,132 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,092 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,097 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,166 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candance a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candance has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candance: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candance, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,294 Americans ever recorded as Candance. The median Candance alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 1,996 people named Candance (1,987 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 361 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 754 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 873 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 108 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Candance born?
The states with the most babies named Candance are Texas, Illinois and California, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 116 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 42 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Mississippi | 36 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Candance with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,546 babies since 1880, Candance is the most given (90% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Candance
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Candance and names like it
- Compare Candance and CandenceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandance peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candance since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Candance.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candance alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.