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)
The name Candy is the #1,506 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28,554 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 80.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #845 (85.2% percentile) for all time with 28,454 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #4,486 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 100 births since 1934.
Candy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1934 for boys). Birth data for Candy is available in 102 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (102 years for girls and 15 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 Candy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Candy reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 64.9% percentile (ranked #272) with 570 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 576 births per million (ranked 64.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Candy ranks #912 for girls (3.7% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Candy reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #647) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Candy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Candy is pronounced as KAN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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