Kandy
Kandy was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,029 among girls’ names; 5,311 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,670 Americans named Kandy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 49 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kandy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kandy?
#14,029 among girls’ names, 2025
Kandy rose from #17,766 in 2015 to #14,029 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
193 babies in 1965, the peak
Kandy peaked in 1965, when 193 girls were given it, #708 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,029 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,324 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,334 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,827 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,588 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,766 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,566 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,339 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,420 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,237 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18 | #7,055 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,622 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,325 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,838 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,994 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,665 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,011 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,774 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,999 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,687 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,447 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,687 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,577 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,826 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,820 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,909 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,532 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,528 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,055 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,951 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,942 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,369 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,359 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,767 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,064 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,919 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,662 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,818 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,489 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,321 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,251 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,037 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,079 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 124 | #989 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 127 | #950 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 146 | #875 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 143 | #913 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 164 | #835 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 159 | #814 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 148 | #839 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 137 | #866 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 154 | #796 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 193 | #708 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 166 | #813 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 166 | #806 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 173 | #791 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 190 | #755 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 188 | #744 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 192 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 158 | #799 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 181 | #741 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 163 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 128 | #859 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 90 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 80 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 64 | #1,186 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 61 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,170 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 28 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,566 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kandy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kandy has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kandy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kandy, and how old are they?
4,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 5,311 Americans ever recorded as Kandy. The median Kandy alive today is 58 years old; half are between 49 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 4,454 people named Kandy (4,351 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,835 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,840 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,910 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Kandy born?
The states with the most babies named Kandy are California, Texas and Ohio, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 532 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 402 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 315 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 210 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 205 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 175 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 154 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 103 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Iowa | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Kandy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kandy is most over-represented in Texas: since 1944 it was given 1.1 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 Kandy 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 Kandy?
Kandy is a less common spelling of Candy: SSA has recorded 5,311 Kandy and 28,625 Candy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 48,788 babies since 1880, Kandy is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 36 babies (17%), the second most given that year.
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 Kandy
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 Kandy and names like it
- Compare Kandy and CandyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKandy peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kandy since 1910.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Kandy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kandy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.