Kandra
Kandra was last recorded in 2013, when 7 babies were given it; 1,340 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Kandra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,877, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
60 babies in 1988, the peak
Kandra peaked in 1988, when 60 girls were given it, #1,995 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,877 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,887 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,035 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,206 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,196 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,081 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,215 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,478 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,094 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,963 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 9 | #10,840 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,998 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,524 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,629 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,111 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,711 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,027 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,163 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,922 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,559 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,715 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,167 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,980 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,617 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,380 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,995 | 33.7 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,172 | 28.8 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,086 | 29.7 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,827 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,974 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,329 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,581 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,477 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,826 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,759 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,043 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,580 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,339 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,634 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,642 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,951 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,330 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,832 | 15.0 |
| 1970 | 23 | #2,979 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,798 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,102 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,397 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,618 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,058 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,863 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,010 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,223 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,526 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,416 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,152 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,734 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,126 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,304 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,942 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,396 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,295 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,591 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,082 | 12.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,397 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,692 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kandra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandra, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,340 Americans ever recorded as Kandra. The median Kandra alive today is 41 years old; half are between 34 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,258 people named Kandra (1,247 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 137 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 354 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 572 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 191 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,155 babies since 1880, Kandra is the second most given (42% 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 Kandra
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 Kandra and names like it
- Compare Kandra and CandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandra since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Kandra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kandra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.