Kandace
Kandace was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,518 among girls’ names; 6,323 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,970 Americans named Kandace and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandace by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandace?
#12,518 among girls’ names, 2025
Kandace fell from #5,930 in 2015 to #12,518 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 4.4 per million.
279 babies in 1988, the peak
Kandace peaked in 1988, when 279 girls were given it, #691 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,518 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,323 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,534 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,826 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,252 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,479 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,069 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,650 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,401 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,886 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,930 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,315 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,396 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,751 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,747 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,777 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,324 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,291 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,110 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,684 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,488 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,407 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,450 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,432 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 69 | #2,310 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,080 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,081 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,853 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 109 | #1,498 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,524 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,230 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 162 | #1,106 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 217 | #889 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 203 | #949 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 240 | #838 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 275 | #753 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 257 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 279 | #691 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 244 | #742 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 184 | #893 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 187 | #860 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 199 | #799 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 162 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 146 | #1,012 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 153 | #962 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,477 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 74 | #1,518 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 67 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,623 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,613 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,539 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,533 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 69 | #1,420 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,399 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,412 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,392 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,548 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,517 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 80 | #1,203 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 39 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,676 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,659 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 40 | #1,800 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,077 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 56 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,854 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,725 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,612 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,441 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,529 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandace a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandace has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandace: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandace, and how old are they?
5,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,323 Americans ever recorded as Kandace. The median Kandace alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 5,354 people named Kandace (5,349 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,001 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,050 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
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 Kandace born?
The states with the most babies named Kandace are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 629 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 536 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 174 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 161 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 156 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 151 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 149 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 130 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 123 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Kandace is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kandace is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1945 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kandace 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 Kandace?
Kandace is a less common spelling of Candace: SSA has recorded 6,323 Kandace and 85,097 Candace since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 170,918 babies since 1880, Kandace is the fourth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 82 babies (8.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Kandace
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 Kandace and names like it
- Compare Kandace and CandaceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKandace peaked in 1988.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandace since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Kandace.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kandace alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.