Candus
Candus was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 241 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,714, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1953, the peak
Candus peaked in 1953, when 13 girls were given it, #3,127 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #11,714 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,866 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,195 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,902 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,717 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,521 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,878 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,280 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,579 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,488 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 7 | #8,272 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,242 | 6.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,467 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,382 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,065 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,156 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,913 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,324 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,343 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,088 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,953 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,356 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,226 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,357 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,242 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,501 | 4.0 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,127 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,535 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,057 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,281 | 4.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,493 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,642 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candus has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candus, and how old are they?
An estimated 212 Americans named Candus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 42 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 247 people named Candus (243 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 8,750 babies since 1880, Candus is the fourth most given (2.8% 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.
More about Candus and names like it
- Compare Candus and CandisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCandus peaked in 1953.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Candus.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candus alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.