first name
KANDY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,454 people named Kandy, 77.2% reported their origin as White, 11.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.3% as Black. 97.7% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Kandy peaked in 1965, when 193 babies got the name.
At least 5,311 babies have been given the name since 1944. 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.
Kandy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,359. The largest share of babies named Kandy, 43.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
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 Kandy is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Kandy has been most common in Ohio (2.4×), Indiana (2.3×), and Michigan (2×), and least common in New York (0.47×).
2,794 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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