Candee
Candee was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 886 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,506, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1970, the peak
Candee peaked in 1970, when 43 girls were given it, #1,954 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #14,506 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,604 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,659 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,389 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,860 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,710 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,034 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,486 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,157 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,956 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 8 | #7,487 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,271 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,248 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,705 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,624 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,178 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,525 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,328 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,762 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,459 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,382 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,954 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,302 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,976 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,498 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,593 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,418 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,310 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,094 | 16.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,031 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,120 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,654 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,951 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,459 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,810 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,462 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,026 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,455 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,874 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,077 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,706 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,957 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,423 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,622 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,001 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,326 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,630 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candee, and how old are they?
An estimated 760 Americans named Candee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 52 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 738 people named Candee (738 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 798 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Candee?
Candee is a less common spelling of Candy: SSA has recorded 886 Candee and 28,625 Candy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,834 babies since 1880, Candee is the fifth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Candee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Candee
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 Candee and names like it
- Compare Candee and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCandee peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candee since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Candee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Candee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.