Kandie
Kandie was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 1,080 Americans have been recorded with it between 1945 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,165, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1970, the peak
Kandie peaked in 1970, when 40 girls were given it, #2,060 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,165 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,727 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,931 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,411 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,341 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,704 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,583 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,854 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,568 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,070 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 11 | #7,850 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,759 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,367 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,641 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,162 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,147 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,154 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,369 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,311 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,534 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,659 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,480 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,291 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,918 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,450 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,193 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,897 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,483 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,897 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,204 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,158 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,430 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,329 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,631 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,060 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,544 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,576 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,591 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,273 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,047 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,437 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,818 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,493 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,173 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,124 | 14.8 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,806 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,350 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,313 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,292 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,154 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,592 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,347 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,962 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,865 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,618 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,728 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,862 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,329 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,279 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandie, and how old are they?
An estimated 975 Americans named Kandie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 43 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 882 people named Kandie (880 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Kandie?
Kandie is a less common spelling of Candy: SSA has recorded 1,080 Kandie and 28,625 Candy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 52,295 babies since 1880, Kandie is the sixth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Kandie (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 Kandie
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 Kandie and names like it
- Compare Kandie and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKandie peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandie since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Kandie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kandie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.