How rare is the name Kandace?

5,354 people in the United States have the first name Kandace, about 1 in 56,412. It ranks #3,743 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KANDACE

#3,743

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,354
About
1 in 56,412
This common or more
83%
Who bears it

Of the 5,354 people named Kandace, 66.7% reported their origin as White, 20.5% as Black and 5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kandace peaked in 1988, when 279 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452025
Peak year
1988
Births that year
279
In 2025*
7 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,323 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Kandace by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,458. The largest share of babies named Kandace, 49.8%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#3,966151
1950s#2,663412
1960s#2,565516
1970s#2,422687
1980s#1,4581,955
1990s#1,9771,607
2000s#4,518646
2010s#8,529273
2020s#13,91876
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–6412.1%
Generation X 1965–8017.9%
Millennials 1981–9649.8%
Generation Z 1997–1216.2%
2013 and later3.7%

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 Kandace is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kandace has been most common in Louisiana (3.1×), Texas (2.6×), and Tennessee (1.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.31×).

3,105 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.

Either side of Kandace

#3,741 Galilea · 5,370#3,742 Wilber · 5,360#3,744 Dudley · 5,342#3,744 Thurman · 5,342

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Kandace, most common first.

#3,548 Kandice · 5,816#11,104 Kandyce · 1,172#30,611 Kandise · 284#47,034 Kandas · 140

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