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Candi

Girls' name

Variant of Candy

Candi has been given to 7,356 babies in the U.S. since 1944. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 360 recorded.

Babies named Candi, 2022

1 in 677,000

Candi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Candy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Candi means

Candi is a variant of Candy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Candi is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæn.di/ for Candi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Candy and Candace.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,356 girls were recorded with the name Candi between 1944 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 360 in 1980; its best national rank was #527 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Candi?

Candi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candi was born before 1975 — so the typical Candi is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
7,163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (2,206).

Is Candi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (360)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#527
1980

Spellings of Candi

Candi is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 24.0% against Candi's 0.63%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Candi is used

Across 1910–2025, Candi was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 30,507 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 14,286
  2. 2Washington1 in 14,286
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 20,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 20,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Candi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Candi around the world

Where Candi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • France
    1998–1998
    #4,393
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Candi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#527
1980
Peak year
1980
360 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
7,356
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Candi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CandyMandiSandiAndiCandisCindiLyndiRandiKandiCandieMindiLindiCanaWendiCyndiCandraNandiCandidaCanaryCandyceKendiCandiceCanaanCandace

Names with a curve like Candi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Candi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AdrianeFawnJeannaDanelleJeanaAnthonyTimothyKevinDarciStevenCharisseDarcie

Sibling names for Candi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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