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How popular is “Candace” in the USA?

Number of people named “Candace” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Candace” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Candace” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Candace” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Candace” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Candace” by birth year

This chart shows how “Candace” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 8 0.000036112 8 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1894 13 0.000038383 13 100%
1895 6 0.000017093 6 100%
1897 6 0.000017293 6 100%
1899 5 0.000014739 5 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1909 7 0.000013693 7 100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 12 0.000012145 12 100%
1913 12 0.000010553 12 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 5 0.000002729 5 100%
1916 19 0.000009822 19 100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 100%
1918 14 0.000006448 14 100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 100%
1924 11 0.000004619 11 100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 100%
1926 11 0.000004791 11 100%
1927 16 0.000006898 16 100%
1928 8 0.000003538 8 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 100%
1932 14 0.000006631 14 100%
1933 19 0.000009503 19 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1935 11 0.000005263 11 100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 100%
1937 19 0.000008917 19 100%
1938 20 0.000009039 20 100%
1939 26 0.0000118 26 100%
1940 31 0.000013463 31 100%
1941 30 0.000012313 30 100%
1942 129 0.000047221 129 100%
1943 233 0.000082549 233 100%
1944 307 0.000114123 307 100%
1945 632 0.000238229 632 100%
1946 1001 0.000313272 1001 100%
1947 1317 0.000365598 1317 100%
1948 1446 0.000418825 1446 100%
1949 1594 0.000457418 1589 5 99%
1950 1648 0.000470406 1648 100%
1951 1739 0.000472075 1734 5 99%
1952 1835 0.000483148 1835 100%
1953 1753 0.000454894 1753 100%
1954 1555 0.000390634 1555 100%
1955 1413 0.000351923 1413 100%
1956 1404 0.000340526 1404 100%
1957 1162 0.000276526 1156 6 99%
1958 846 0.000204649 846 100%
1959 907 0.000218134 907 100%
1960 843 0.000202946 843 100%
1961 741 0.000178886 741 100%
1962 809 0.000200477 804 5 99%
1963 863 0.000218028 863 100%
1964 837 0.0002153 837 100%
1965 970 0.000267553 970 100%
1966 1220 0.000351013 1220 100%
1967 1118 0.000329318 1118 100%
1968 1179 0.00034898 1179 100%
1969 1307 0.00037608 1298 9 99%
1970 1427 0.000395673 1427 100%
1971 1308 0.000381079 1308 100%
1972 1254 0.000398983 1254 100%
1973 1132 0.000375221 1132 100%
1974 1155 0.000379934 1155 100%
1975 1129 0.000373916 1123 6 99%
1976 1212 0.000399433 1212 100%
1977 1145 0.00036046 1140 5 99%
1978 1326 0.000417786 1326 100%
1979 1600 0.000480914 1594 6 99%
1980 2199 0.000638408 2188 11 99%
1981 2587 0.000747823 2581 6 100%
1982 2859 0.000815003 2848 11 99%
1983 2708 0.000781904 2698 10 99%
1984 2684 0.000769329 2668 16 99%
1985 2716 0.000760974 2707 9 99%
1986 2469 0.000694109 2459 10 99%
1987 2337 0.000648156 2329 8 99%
1988 2427 0.000656826 2421 6 100%
1989 2283 0.000593844 2270 13 99%
1990 2169 0.00054877 2162 7 99%
1991 1941 0.000498297 1936 5 99%
1992 1661 0.000432409 1661 100%
1993 1309 0.000347189 1309 100%
1994 1100 0.000295886 1100 100%
1995 966 0.000263779 966 100%
1996 760 0.000208379 760 100%
1997 625 0.000172378 625 100%
1998 535 0.000145451 535 100%
1999 463 0.000125343 463 100%
2000 421 0.000111378 421 100%
2001 339 0.00009056 339 100%
2002 330 0.000088276 330 100%
2003 341 0.000089682 341 100%
2004 307 0.000080347 307 100%
2005 269 0.000069964 269 100%
2006 249 0.000062939 249 100%
2007 254 0.000063537 254 100%
2008 217 0.000055207 217 100%
2009 198 0.00005183 198 100%
2010 133 0.000035987 133 100%
2011 141 0.000038548 141 100%
2012 101 0.000027615 101 100%
2013 99 0.000027156 99 100%
2014 121 0.000032646 121 100%
2015 92 0.000024859 92 100%
2016 101 0.00002753 101 100%
2017 77 0.000021531 77 100%
2018 64 0.000018203 64 100%
2019 60 0.000017286 60 100%
2020 69 0.000020655 69 100%
2021 64 0.00001889 64 100%
2022 66 0.000019509 66 100%
2023 54 0.000016308 54 100%
2024 42 0.000012618 42 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Candace:

  1. Canan
  2. Canari
  3. Canary
  4. Canasia
  5. Canda
  6. Candace (this page)
  7. Candan
  8. Candance
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  10. Candase
  11. Cande