Candice
Candice was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,124 among girls’ names; 68,139 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 63,500 Americans named Candice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 38 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Candice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Candice is “a female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Candace.” Its etymology gives the sense “whiteness” (candida).
A variant of Candace associated with Late Latin candida (“whiteness”) via folk etymology.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Candice?
#5,124 among girls’ names, 2025
Candice fell from #1,841 in 2015 to #5,124 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 62.7 to 15.6 per million.
3,810 babies in 1982, the peak
Candice peaked in 1982, when 3,810 babies were given it (3,791 girls, #78 among girls’ names). The 25 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,124 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,789 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,585 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,192 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,306 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,028 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,514 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,442 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,022 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 135 | #1,622 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 112 | #1,841 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 131 | #1,635 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,796 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,575 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 182 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 247 | #1,058 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,061 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 250 | #1,024 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,079 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 213 | #1,078 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 258 | #920 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 242 | #924 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 299 | #790 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 324 | #715 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 345 | #663 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 407 | #594 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 431 | #546 | 0.25 |
| 1996 | 609 | #417 | 0.35 |
| 1995 | 688 | #384 | 0.39 |
| 1994 | 937 | #292 | 0.52 |
| 1993 | 1,102 | #252 | 0.61 |
| 1992 | 1,487 | #198 | 0.81 |
| 1991 | 1,745 | #173 | 0.93 |
| 1990 | 2,117 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 2,260 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1988 | 2,227 | #130 | 1.3 |
| 1987 | 2,291 | #121 | 1.3 |
| 1986 | 2,560 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 3,195 | #86 | 1.9 |
| 1984 | 3,393 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 1983 | 3,420 | #84 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 3,791 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 1981 | 3,698 | #86 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 3,012 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1979 | 2,227 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1978 | 1,615 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1977 | 1,273 | #203 | 0.83 |
| 1976 | 1,209 | #202 | 0.83 |
| 1975 | 1,125 | #220 | 0.77 |
| 1974 | 936 | #274 | 0.64 |
| 1973 | 946 | #264 | 0.65 |
| 1972 | 1,002 | #263 | 0.66 |
| 1971 | 1,129 | #260 | 0.68 |
| 1970 | 1,022 | #287 | 0.58 |
| 1969 | 678 | #345 | 0.40 |
| 1968 | 622 | #356 | 0.38 |
| 1967 | 511 | #410 | 0.31 |
| 1966 | 331 | #519 | 0.20 |
| 1965 | 259 | #596 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 193 | #751 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 181 | #764 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 222 | #691 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 240 | #665 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 268 | #611 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 384 | #498 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 412 | #468 | 0.20 |
| 1957 | 538 | #393 | 0.26 |
| 1956 | 721 | #325 | 0.36 |
| 1955 | 577 | #363 | 0.30 |
| 1954 | 595 | #352 | 0.31 |
| 1953 | 644 | #325 | 0.34 |
| 1952 | 758 | #294 | 0.41 |
| 1951 | 661 | #305 | 0.37 |
| 1950 | 764 | #278 | 0.45 |
| 1949 | 817 | #271 | 0.48 |
| 1948 | 617 | #307 | 0.36 |
| 1947 | 540 | #342 | 0.30 |
| 1946 | 273 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1945 | 101 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,365 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,510 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candice has been given almost only to girls: 155 boys in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Candice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candice, and how old are they?
63,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 68,139 Americans ever recorded as Candice. The median Candice alive today is 43 years old; half are between 38 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 59,920 people named Candice (59,878 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64,667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 90 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 927 |
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 Candice born?
The states with the most babies named Candice are California, Texas and New York, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,442 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5,313 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 3,868 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 3,435 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 2,784 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 2,569 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 2,551 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 2,396 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,327 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 2,208 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Candice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Candice is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1925 it was given 1.3 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 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 Candice 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 170,918 babies since 1880, Candice is the second most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 82 babies (30%), again the second most given.
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 Candice
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 Candice and names like it
- Compare Candice and CandaceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandice peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candice since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Candice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.