Candie
Candie was last recorded in 2012, when 7 babies were given it; 2,985 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,710 Americans named Candie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 43 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,760, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
113 babies in 1984, the peak
Candie peaked in 1984, when 113 girls were given it, #1,174 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #13,760 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,191 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,492 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,605 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,801 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,895 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,629 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,262 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,642 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,110 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | #7,380 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,894 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,800 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,395 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,332 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,083 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,706 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,541 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,022 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,252 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,828 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,805 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,247 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,128 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,681 | 41.4 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,958 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,727 | 38.4 |
| 1984 | 113 | #1,174 | 67.1 |
| 1983 | 92 | #1,311 | 55.1 |
| 1982 | 102 | #1,263 | 60.2 |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,239 | 62.9 |
| 1980 | 99 | #1,290 | 59.6 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,679 | 41.1 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,489 | 49.6 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,664 | 41.1 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,571 | 43.7 |
| 1975 | 84 | #1,311 | 57.6 |
| 1974 | 86 | #1,261 | 58.6 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,254 | 56.9 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,432 | 44.7 |
| 1971 | 84 | #1,301 | 50.5 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,331 | 45.2 |
| 1969 | 79 | #1,260 | 46.8 |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,301 | 43.9 |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,382 | 38.2 |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,493 | 32.5 |
| 1965 | 59 | #1,438 | 33.4 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,282 | 39.6 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,405 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,497 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,579 | 25.3 |
| 1960 | 50 | #1,580 | 24.7 |
| 1959 | 66 | #1,315 | 32.6 |
| 1958 | 66 | #1,301 | 32.8 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,407 | 27.4 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,379 | 28.4 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,539 | 22.5 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,076 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,177 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,897 | 15.1 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,808 | 16.1 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,354 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,744 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,603 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,637 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,973 | 14.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,631 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,641 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,705 | 3.7 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,520 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candie, and how old are they?
2,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,985 Americans ever recorded as Candie. The median Candie alive today is 51 years old; half are between 43 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 2,436 people named Candie (2,428 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,785 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 637 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 832 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 131 |
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 Candie born?
The states with the most babies named Candie are California, Texas and Ohio, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 257 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 147 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 104 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 35 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Candie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Candie?
Candie is a less common spelling of Candy: SSA has recorded 2,985 Candie and 28,625 Candy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 50,564 babies since 1880, Candie is the fifth most given (5.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 30 babies recorded by SSA was a Candie (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 Candie
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 Candie and names like it
- Compare Candie and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandie peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candie since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Candie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Candie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.