Candyce
Candyce was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 3,014 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Candyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 37 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Candyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Candyce?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,711, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
102 babies in 1985, the peak
Candyce peaked in 1985, when 102 girls were given it, #1,312 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,711 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,781 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,481 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,740 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,855 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,136 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,201 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,298 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,373 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,732 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | #10,836 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,196 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,748 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,941 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,840 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,788 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,853 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,482 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,852 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,308 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,253 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,581 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,853 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,323 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,252 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,798 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,572 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,430 | 28.7 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,416 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,289 | 29.0 |
| 1989 | 63 | #1,994 | 34.2 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,708 | 42.1 |
| 1987 | 79 | #1,580 | 45.4 |
| 1986 | 82 | #1,507 | 47.8 |
| 1985 | 102 | #1,312 | 59.3 |
| 1984 | 86 | #1,371 | 51.1 |
| 1983 | 89 | #1,348 | 53.3 |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,672 | 40.2 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,647 | 42.0 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,909 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,534 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,478 | 22.8 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,012 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,829 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,324 | 24.0 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,329 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,271 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,175 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,114 | 23.4 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,401 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,022 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,717 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,438 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,052 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,161 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,922 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,073 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,169 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,416 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,375 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,673 | 21.3 |
| 1958 | 49 | #1,527 | 24.4 |
| 1957 | 58 | #1,387 | 28.4 |
| 1956 | 81 | #1,150 | 40.3 |
| 1955 | 76 | #1,141 | 38.9 |
| 1954 | 68 | #1,212 | 35.0 |
| 1953 | 100 | #943 | 53.2 |
| 1952 | 98 | #935 | 52.8 |
| 1951 | 85 | #1,009 | 47.2 |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,006 | 47.9 |
| 1949 | 91 | #929 | 53.2 |
| 1948 | 69 | #1,056 | 40.6 |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,021 | 42.3 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,276 | 29.3 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,664 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,415 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,848 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Candyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Candyce has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Candyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Candyce, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,014 Americans ever recorded as Candyce. The median Candyce alive today is 45 years old; half are between 37 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,583 people named Candyce (2,580 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,752 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 857 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 433 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 977 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 312 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 50 |
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 Candyce born?
The states with the most babies named Candyce are California, Texas and Minnesota, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 324 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 173 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 72 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 60 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 35 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 30 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 22 | 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 Candyce 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 Candyce?
Candyce is a less common spelling of Candice: SSA has recorded 3,014 Candyce and 68,139 Candice since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 170,918 babies since 1880, Candyce is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Candyce (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 Candyce
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 Candyce and names like it
- Compare Candyce and CandiceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCandyce peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Candyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Candyce.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Candyce alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.