Candas
Candas was last recorded in 1991, when 7 babies were given it; 168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,422, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1985, the peak
Candas peaked in 1985, when 12 girls were given it, #5,720 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 7 | #10,422 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,036 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,781 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,899 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,850 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,720 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,362 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,770 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,977 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,867 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #10,587 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,404 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,573 | 3.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,429 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,126 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,500 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,356 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,355 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,174 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,053 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,411 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,751 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,496 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candas has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candas, and how old are they?
An estimated 154 Americans named Candas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 41 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 205 people named Candas (205 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,750 babies since 1880, Candas is the fifth most given (1.9% 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 Candas
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 Candas and names like it
- Compare Candas and CandisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandas peaked in 1985.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Candas.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candas alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.