Candelario
Candelario was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,273 among boys’ names; 2,319 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Candelario and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 30 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candelario by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candelario?
#7,273 among boys’ names, 2025
Candelario rose from #7,571 in 2015 to #7,273 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 6.4 per million.
38 babies in 1929, the peak
Candelario peaked in 1929, when 38 boys were given it, #1,129 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,273 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,910 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,422 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,823 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,713 | 5.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,251 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,571 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,700 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,614 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,256 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 14 | #5,987 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,144 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,591 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,802 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,462 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,338 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,719 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,819 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,311 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,771 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,518 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,780 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,561 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,397 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,911 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,331 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,029 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,950 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,053 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,469 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,001 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,870 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 19 | #3,103 | 9.5 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,374 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,338 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,904 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,510 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,122 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,094 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,007 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,731 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,597 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #1,998 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,801 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,863 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,251 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,010 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,588 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 20 | #2,050 | 12.8 |
| 1972 | 32 | #1,511 | 19.7 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,826 | 13.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,522 | 16.7 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,736 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,579 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,817 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,974 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,863 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,220 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 19 | #1,848 | 9.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,714 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,694 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,899 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 30 | #1,441 | 14.1 |
| 1958 | 20 | #1,773 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,796 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,387 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,507 | 12.6 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,243 | 17.7 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,677 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,407 | 14.9 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,379 | 15.4 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,470 | 14.0 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,228 | 19.2 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,567 | 12.5 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,273 | 18.0 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,699 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,124 | 25.3 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,258 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,312 | 19.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,742 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,492 | 17.1 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,338 | 21.6 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,396 | 20.8 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,252 | 25.2 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,639 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 15 | #1,813 | 14.5 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,594 | 18.2 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,511 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,366 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,257 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,285 | 27.9 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,466 | 22.8 |
| 1929 | 38 | #1,129 | 35.3 |
| 1928 | 31 | #1,297 | 28.0 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,324 | 27.5 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,302 | 27.9 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,687 | 18.8 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,537 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,243 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 18 | #1,899 | 16.5 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,393 | 26.3 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,302 | 29.1 |
| 1919 | 17 | #1,887 | 17.3 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,720 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,571 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 9 | #2,754 | 10.1 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,130 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,968 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,304 | 13.7 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,442 | 30.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,368 | 34.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Candelario a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candelario has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candelario: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candelario, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 2,319 Americans ever recorded as Candelario. The median Candelario alive today is 46 years old; half are between 30 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 3,981 people named Candelario (26 women and girls, 3,955 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 86 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 299 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 356 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 249 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
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 Candelario born?
The states with the most babies named Candelario are Texas, California and New Mexico, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Mexico is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,175 | #2,640 | 7.3× |
| California | 355 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Mexico | 34 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Candelario is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Candelario is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 7.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Candelario with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Candelario
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 Candelario and names like it
- Compare Candelario and PorfirioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCandelario peaked in 1929.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candelario since 1910.
- The top names of 1929The year the most babies were named Candelario.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candelario alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.