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Candido

#10,896 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Candidus

Candido has been given to 2,087 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,896 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Candido, 2025

1 in 553,000

Candido over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candido: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Candidus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Candido means

Candido is a form of Candidus.

Origin, language, and formation

Candido is used in Italian.

Candido comes through Latin Candidus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Candidus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,087 boys were recorded with the name Candido between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1996; its best national rank was #829 in 1880.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,572 in 2015 to #10,896 in 2025.

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 Candido?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,896
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candido sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candido. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candidos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candido was born before 1971 — so the typical Candido is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
13.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,533
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 13.2% of all recorded uses (275).

Is Candido 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
−1,772
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,324
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.8%
Peak was 1996 (38)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#829
1880

Where Candido is used

Across 1910–2025, Candido was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 81,123 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 20,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Candido has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Candido around the world

Where Candido 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.

  • France
    1923–2006
    #4,724
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1956–1975
    #460
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Candido

People whose public names include Candido, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Candido in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Candido. Linked forms have their own page here.

CàndidCandideCandidus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Candido by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,896
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#829
1880
Peak year
1996
38 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,087
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Candido

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

CanyonCanonCanaanCantonCandelarioCannonCannanCaneloPlacidoCantrellCandaceCandiceCaneCandenCanCannenBrigidoGuidoCandonCandlerCananCanutoWilfridoAdelaido

Names with a curve like Candido

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

ConradoFidencioJacqueDionicioCecilioModestoNevilleNarcisoFelicianoDelfinoAnselmoRosalio

Sibling names for Candido

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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