girls:
2.7k births since 1946
#3316 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1946
#5160 (33rd percentile)
The name Kandis is the #5,160 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,727 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 33.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,316 (42.0% percentile) for all time with 2,727 births since 1946.
Kandis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Kandis is available in 71 out of the 71 years between 1946 and 2016. 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.
For girls, Kandis reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 16.2% percentile (ranked #672) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 72 births per million (ranked 16.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kandis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kandis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.8% confident that Kandis is pronounced as KAN-dihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAN-deez, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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