How rare is the name Kandice?

5,816 people in the United States have the first name Kandice, about 1 in 51,931. It ranks #3,548 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

KANDICE

#3,548

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,816
About
1 in 51,931
This common or more
82.6%
Who bears it

Of the 5,816 people named Kandice, 62.9% reported their origin as White, 22.8% as Black and 7.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Kandice peaked in 1985, when 298 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19452023
Peak year
1985
Births that year
298
In 2023
11 ▼96%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,823 babies have been given the name since 1945. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Kandice by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,225. The largest share of babies named Kandice, 53.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1940s#5,70979
1950s#3,007332
1960s#3,476302
1970s#2,041931
1980s#1,2252,620
1990s#2,0711,494
2000s#4,298695
2010s#7,425335
2020s#21,58335
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–647.5%
Generation X 1965–8019.8%
Millennials 1981–9653.2%
Generation Z 1997–1215.9%
2013 and later3.5%

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 Kandice is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kandice has been most common in Oklahoma (2.4×), Texas (2.4×), and Utah (2.3×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.19×).

3,908 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 Kandice

#3,546 Shaylee · 5,826#3,547 Esme · 5,818#3,549 Vikki · 5,814#3,550 Adriane · 5,811

Spelled almost the same

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

#3,743 Kandace · 5,354#6,769 Kandis · 2,331#11,104 Kandyce · 1,172#30,611 Kandise · 284#41,400 Kandiss · 177

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