Kandise
Kandise was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 256 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandise?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,372, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1984, the peak
Kandise peaked in 1984, when 23 girls were given it, #3,561 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #18,372 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,653 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,091 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,864 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,227 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,569 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,526 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,083 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,826 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,399 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 18 | #5,156 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,197 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,734 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,758 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,351 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,219 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,561 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,982 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,700 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,548 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,685 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,485 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,018 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,309 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,937 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,586 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,036 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandise, and how old are they?
An estimated 248 Americans named Kandise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 34 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Kandise (284 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Kandise?
Kandise is a less common spelling of Candice: SSA has recorded 256 Kandise and 68,139 Candice since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 69,548 babies since 1880, Kandise is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Kandise (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 Kandise
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 Kandise and names like it
- Compare Kandise and CandiceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKandise peaked in 1984.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandise since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Kandise.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kandise alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.