first name
CANDI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,244 people named Candi, 75.7% reported their origin as White, 9.9% as Black and 8.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Candi peaked in 1980, when 360 babies got the name.
At least 7,356 babies have been given the name since 1944. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Candi by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,284. The largest share of babies named Candi, 44.6%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Candi is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Candi has been most common in Washington (2.2×), Oregon (2.1×), and Arkansas (1.9×), and least common in Minnesota (0.36×).
4,864 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Candi, most common first.
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