girls:
5.3k births since 1944
#2315 (59th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1970
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
5.3k births since 1944
#3755 (51st percentile)
The name Kandy is the #3,755 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,298 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 51.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,315 (59.5% percentile) for all time with 5,293 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1970.
Kandy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Kandy is available in 75 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (75 years for girls and 1 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 Kandy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kandy reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 23.9% percentile (ranked #576) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 106 births per million (ranked 23.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kandy ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kandy reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #668) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kandy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kandy is pronounced as KAN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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