Kandy

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US: ~4,800 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #13,208 among girls
Births in 2025: 6 5,311 since 1880
Typical age: 57 years, median

Kandy popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1944–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1965 is the peak year for Kandy, with 193 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1944. It reaches the top 1,000 in 20 years of the record.

As of 2025 the name sits at #13,208, with 6 births that year. Over ten years the count has risen 20%. It climbed 269 places against the previous year.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Kandy?

About 4,800 people named Kandy are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 5,311 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Kandy?

Half of living Kandys are older than 57, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1960s. By the site’s era rules that makes Kandy a late 20th-century name.

Your Kandy

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

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