Candiss
Candiss was last recorded in 1992, when 6 babies were given it; 286 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candiss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candiss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,979, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1981, the peak
Candiss peaked in 1981, when 24 girls were given it, #3,443 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #11,979 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,423 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,367 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,881 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,668 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,393 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,048 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,299 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,883 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,186 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 14 | #4,971 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,443 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,860 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,149 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,002 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,286 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,569 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,064 | 4.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,101 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,626 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,198 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,175 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,500 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,210 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,752 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,387 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,320 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,393 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,491 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candiss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candiss has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candiss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candiss, and how old are they?
An estimated 263 Americans named Candiss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 40 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Candiss (309 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 270 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Candiss?
Candiss is a less common spelling of Candis: SSA has recorded 286 Candiss and 5,164 Candis since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,796 babies since 1880, Candiss is the third most given (3.3% of them).
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 Candiss
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 Candiss and names like it
- Compare Candiss and CandisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandiss peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candiss since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Candiss.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candiss alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.