Candi
Candi was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 7,356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,740 Americans named Candi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 43 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Candi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Candi is “a diminutive of the female given name Candace.”
A less common spelling of Candy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Candi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,756, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
360 babies in 1980, the peak
Candi peaked in 1980, when 360 girls were given it, #527 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,756 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,390 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,854 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,043 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,328 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,372 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,312 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,130 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,212 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,135 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | #8,815 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,266 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,037 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,499 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,500 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,215 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,809 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,900 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,847 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,915 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,313 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 26 | #3,987 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,323 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,982 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,241 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 145 | #1,084 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 142 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 177 | #909 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 177 | #898 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 243 | #690 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 241 | #707 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 286 | #629 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 308 | #597 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 360 | #527 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 245 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 156 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 197 | #764 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 186 | #772 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 176 | #793 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 178 | #776 | 0.12 |
| 1973 | 203 | #716 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 244 | #631 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 261 | #636 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 248 | #655 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 205 | #695 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 189 | #708 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 145 | #833 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 141 | #841 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 146 | #823 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 136 | #890 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 194 | #737 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 124 | #953 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 135 | #922 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 147 | #855 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 125 | #936 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 135 | #876 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 124 | #919 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 95 | #1,050 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 61 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 33 | #1,633 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,141 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,074 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,729 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candi, and how old are they?
6,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 7,356 Americans ever recorded as Candi. The median Candi alive today is 50 years old; half are between 43 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 6,244 people named Candi (6,224 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,330 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,050 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23 |
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 Candi born?
The states with the most babies named Candi are California, Texas and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 727 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 454 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 329 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 265 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 251 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 230 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 226 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 198 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 198 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 192 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Candi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Candi is most over-represented in Washington: since 1944 it was given 1.4 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 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 Candi 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 55,370 babies since 1880, Candi is the second most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Candi (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 Candi
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 Candi and names like it
- Compare Candi and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandi peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candi since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Candi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Candi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.