Kandis
Kandis was last recorded in 2016, when 9 babies were given it; 2,727 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,540 Americans named Kandis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,298, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
135 babies in 1987, the peak
Kandis peaked in 1987, when 135 girls were given it, #1,111 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 9 | #11,298 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,483 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,565 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,904 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,056 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,436 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,959 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,421 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,447 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,899 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | #8,973 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,764 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,088 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,315 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,027 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,686 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,338 | 15.4 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,139 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,770 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,661 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,461 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,990 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,955 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,652 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,199 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,021 | 36.3 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,674 | 46.4 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,444 | 55.3 |
| 1988 | 109 | #1,322 | 61.2 |
| 1987 | 135 | #1,111 | 77.6 |
| 1986 | 119 | #1,189 | 69.4 |
| 1985 | 115 | #1,208 | 66.8 |
| 1984 | 104 | #1,240 | 61.8 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,173 | 67.0 |
| 1982 | 88 | #1,391 | 52.0 |
| 1981 | 77 | #1,553 | 46.2 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,816 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,930 | 33.6 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,403 | 24.2 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,484 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,958 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,333 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,576 | 19.8 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,053 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,001 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 36 | #2,224 | 21.6 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,414 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,545 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,668 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,592 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,075 | 18.9 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,981 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,053 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,273 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 24 | #2,494 | 12.2 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,434 | 12.4 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,608 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,865 | 17.8 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,351 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,042 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,606 | 21.9 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,751 | 18.4 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,855 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,049 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,543 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,283 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,695 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,783 | 17.0 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,877 | 15.3 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,240 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,805 | 8.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandis has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandis, and how old are they?
2,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,727 Americans ever recorded as Kandis. The median Kandis alive today is 41 years old; half are between 35 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,331 people named Kandis (2,326 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,593 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 405 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 455 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 352 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30 |
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 Kandis born?
The states with the most babies named Kandis are California, Texas and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 193 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 33 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Kandis with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,873 babies since 1880, Kandis is the second most given (31% of them).
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 Kandis
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 Kandis and names like it
- Compare Kandis and CandisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKandis peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandis since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Kandis.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kandis alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.