How Many People Are Named Kandi?
people named Kandi are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 66,859 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,547 babies named Kandi in Social Security records from 1945 to 2018, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
202 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CANDY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Kandi in English. Counting Kandi and these spellings together, about 37,158 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Kandi in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Kandi alive today is about 50 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 42 and 59 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Kandi first appears in the records in 1945 and was given most often in 1981, to 202 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2018.
Babies given the name each year, 1945 to 2018
🏆 Rank History
Kandi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #746, in 1970.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #746 (1970) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #859 in the 1970s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Kandi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Kandi were born in California than in any other state: about 405 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Kandi was given 3.1 times as often in Oklahoma, 2.9 times in Indiana and 2.8 times in Kansas.
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