Candice
Candice is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 78th, in 1982.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19823,791 births
- Best rank
- #78in 1982
- Since 1925
- 67,959people given the name
The story in the numbers
67,959 girls have been named Candice in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 3,791 births — 0.22% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 3,791 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 44%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 6 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Candice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 6 | |
| 1940s | 2,405 | |
| 1950s | 6,054 | |
| 1960s | 3,505 | |
| 1970s | 12,485 | |
| 1980s | 29,848 | |
| 1990s | 9,868 | |
| 2000s | 2,482 | |
| 2010s | 1,130 | |
| 2020s | 176 |
In 1982, its biggest year
Candice was the 78th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.
Names that rose and fell with Candice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marquittapeak 1983
- Crystalpeak 1982
- Sharitapeak 1985
- Christinpeak 1989
- Candisepeak 1987
- Shenapeak 1984
- Tiffanypeak 1988
- Stefaniepeak 1983
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.