How rare is the name Kandi?

4,707 people in the United States have the first name Kandi, about 1 in 64,166. It ranks #4,097 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KANDI

#4,097

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,707
About
1 in 64,166
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,707 people named Kandi, 80.7% reported their origin as White, 8% as Black and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kandi peaked in 1981, when 202 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452018
Peak year
1981
Births that year
202
In 2018
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,547 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kandi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,480. The largest share of babies named Kandi, 45.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#5,93373
1950s#2,313537
1960s#1,4931,406
1970s#1,4801,608
1980s#1,8041,385
1990s#5,766322
2000s#13,001140
2010s#19,76676
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–6423.1%
Generation X 1965–8045.2%
Millennials 1981–9626.8%
Generation Z 1997–124.1%
2013 and later0.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Kandi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kandi has been most common in Indiana (3.1×), Oklahoma (2.7×), and Kansas (2.6×), and least common in New York (0.34×).

2,969 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 Kandi

#4,095 Delfino · 4,714#4,096 Emmaline · 4,710#4,098 Kelby · 4,706#4,099 Anselmo · 4,705

Spelled almost the same

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

#4,268 Kandy · 4,454#13,617 Kandie · 882#28,022 Kanda · 323#30,674 Kanti · 283#43,791 Kande · 160

Also a last name

As a last name, Kandi ranks #70,358 of 156,621, with 300 people. See Kandi as a last name

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