Kandi
Kandi was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 5,547 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Kandi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 43 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,841, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
202 babies in 1981, the peak
Kandi peaked in 1981, when 202 girls were given it, #798 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,841 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,101 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,791 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,564 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,903 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,208 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,887 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,353 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,512 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 14 | #8,727 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,268 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,972 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,417 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,010 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,914 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,138 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,685 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,268 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,014 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,196 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,305 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,162 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,273 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,942 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,243 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,527 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,632 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,928 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,508 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,569 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 125 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 119 | #1,188 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,119 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 136 | #1,041 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 161 | #926 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 160 | #936 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 202 | #798 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 174 | #882 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 152 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 131 | #1,040 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 151 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 149 | #887 | 0.10 |
| 1975 | 163 | #829 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 152 | #860 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 152 | #849 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 169 | #802 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 191 | #766 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 198 | #746 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 157 | #821 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 144 | #854 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 135 | #876 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 140 | #845 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 151 | #810 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 150 | #853 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 155 | #839 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 128 | #941 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 131 | #943 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 115 | #1,001 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 93 | #1,109 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 108 | #1,000 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 96 | #1,062 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 76 | #1,197 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,825 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,660 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,496 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,217 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,269 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandi, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 5,547 Americans ever recorded as Kandi. The median Kandi alive today is 51 years old; half are between 43 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 4,707 people named Kandi (4,687 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 223 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39 |
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 Kandi born?
The states with the most babies named Kandi are California, Texas and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 454 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 390 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 224 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 223 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 179 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 145 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 130 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 111 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 92 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Kandi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kandi is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1945 it was given 1.5 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 Kandi 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 Kandi?
Kandi is a less common spelling of Candy: SSA has recorded 5,547 Kandi and 28,625 Candy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,619 babies since 1880, Kandi is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Kandi (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 Kandi
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 Kandi and names like it
- Compare Kandi and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKandi peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandi since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Kandi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kandi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.