Candler — boys' name

What the Data Says About Candler

The Social Security Administration has registered 67 babies named Candler between 1916 and 2019, spanning 104 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Candler currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Candler is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Candler performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 20 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Candler shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Candler in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Candler in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 67 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.