Candy

girls:

28.5k births since 1896

#845 (85th percentile)

boys:

100 births since 1934

#4486 (2nd percentile)

overall:

28.6k births since 1896

#1506 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Candy".

1896 2023 18962023

Key Statistics

Total Births
28,454
Peak Births
1,044
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1896
Peak Percentile
64.9%
Current Percentile
3.7%
Peak Rank
#272
Current Rank
#912
Female statistics
Total Births
100
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
1974
First Recorded
1934
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#528
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Candy

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Candy. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 97.5% confident that Candy is pronounced as KAN-dee. The next most likely pronunciation is kan-dee, at 2.5% confidence.

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kan-dee (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
K AE0 N D IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AE1 N D IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.