girls:
84.8k births since 1882
#413 (93rd percentile)
boys:
159 births since 1949
#4427 (3rd percentile)
overall:
85k births since 1882
#759 (90th percentile)
The name Candace is the #759 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85,006 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 90.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #413 (92.8% percentile) for all time with 84,847 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,427 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 159 births since 1949.
Candace first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1949 for boys). Birth data for Candace is available in 127 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (127 years for girls and 20 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Candace has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Candace reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 87.2% percentile (ranked #102) with 1,479 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 1,570 births per million (ranked 87.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1985, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Candace ranks #898 for girls (5.2% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Candace reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #677) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Candace".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Candace is pronounced as KAN-duhs, which has 2 syllables.
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