Candelario — boys' name

What the Data Says About Candelario

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,308 babies named Candelario between 1907 and 2023, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Candelario currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1929, when 38 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Candelario performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 269 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Candelario shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,170 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Candelario in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Candelario in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,308 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.