How Many People Are Named Candyce?

2,671

people named Candyce are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 127,961 people in the US has this name

Based on 3,014 babies named Candyce in Social Security records from 1943 to 2021, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#5,577

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,124

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Peak Year

1985

102 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KAN-dis
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of CANDACE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Candyce in English. Counting Candyce and these spellings together, about 153,230 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Candyce in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Candyce alive today is about 49 years old, and 51% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 36 and 69 in 2025.

Under 30 386
14.4%
30 to 59 1,375
51.5%
60 and over 911
34.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Candyce first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1985, to 102 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2021.

Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2021

🏆 Rank History

Candyce has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #929, in 1949.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#929 (1949)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,584 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Candyce alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Candyce were born in California than in any other state: about 285 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Candyce was given 4.1 times as often in Minnesota, 3.3 times in California and 2.6 times in Texas.

California 285
Texas 157
Minnesota 55
New York 49
Illinois 46
Michigan 29
Ohio 29
Washington 23
Florida 21
Wisconsin 20
Tennessee 18
Maryland 15
New Mexico 8
Colorado 5
Massachusetts 5
Virginia 5
Kentucky 5
North Dakota 4
South Dakota 4
Missouri 4
Nebraska 4
Pennsylvania 3

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