Kandice
Kandice was last recorded in 2023, when 11 babies were given it; 6,823 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,510 Americans named Kandice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 32 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kandice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kandice is “a female given name.”
Late 20th century; respelling of Candice.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kandice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,285, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
298 babies in 1985, the peak
Kandice peaked in 1985, when 298 girls were given it, #628 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11 | #9,285 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,778 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,421 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,888 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,523 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,375 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,165 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,582 | 0.02 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,568 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,561 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 48 | #3,344 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,752 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,751 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,229 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,145 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,495 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 92 | #2,169 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,615 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,584 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,352 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,396 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 69 | #2,337 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,673 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,220 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,117 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,715 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 92 | #1,699 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,629 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,525 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 157 | #1,135 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 179 | #1,029 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 212 | #918 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 217 | #895 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 277 | #747 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 280 | #708 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 255 | #737 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 259 | #705 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 255 | #705 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 298 | #628 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 266 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 274 | #633 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 260 | #676 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 247 | #691 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 226 | #737 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 131 | #1,041 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 75 | #1,475 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,362 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 131 | #958 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 77 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,258 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 74 | #1,358 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,354 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 68 | #1,483 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 61 | #1,522 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,614 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,188 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,218 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,862 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,650 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,765 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,243 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,831 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandice, and how old are they?
6,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 6,823 Americans ever recorded as Kandice. The median Kandice alive today is 39 years old; half are between 32 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 5,816 people named Kandice (5,807 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,561 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 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 398 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,270 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 234 |
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 Kandice born?
The states with the most babies named Kandice are Texas, California and Georgia, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 715 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 691 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 225 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 206 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 182 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 172 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 159 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 149 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 129 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 126 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kandice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kandice is most over-represented in Oklahoma: 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 Kandice 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 Kandice?
Kandice is a less common spelling of Candice: SSA has recorded 6,823 Kandice and 68,139 Candice since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 170,918 babies since 1880, Kandice is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Kandice (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 Kandice
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 Kandice and names like it
- Compare Kandice and CandiceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKandice peaked in 1985.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandice since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Kandice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kandice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.