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Candis

Girls' name

Variant of Candace

Candis has been given to 5,164 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1985, with 233 recorded.

Babies named Candis, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candis: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Candace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Candis means

Candis is a variant of Candace.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Candis is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæn.dɪs/ for Candis.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Candis → Candace. The family’s meaning is “queen mother”, recorded in the naming reference for Candace.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Candace.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,164 girls were recorded with the name Candis between 1889 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 233 in 1985; its best national rank was #730 in 1984.

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.

How common is Candis?

Candis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candis 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candis was born before 1980 — so the typical Candis is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,519
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1980s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (1,933).

Is Candis 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (233)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#730
1984

Spellings of Candis

Candis is not the most common spelling — Candice is, with 24.0% against Candis's 1.8%.

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 Candis is used

Across 1910–2025, Candis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 59,365 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 50,000

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. Candis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Candis around the world

Where Candis 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
    1997–1997
    #3,174
    in 1997
  • France
    2004–2004
    #5,598
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Candis 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
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Best rank ever
#730
1984
Peak year
1985
233 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5,164
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Candis

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

GladisCandieCandraCandiCandidaCandyCanaryCandyceYehudisCanaanCanyonCandeeKandisCandiceArdisCandiseCanaCandaceCandanceCandelariaCaniyaCandusCannonCannie

Names with a curve like Candis

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

LoniAndrewKyleCandyceVenessaMarquettaShareeDanielKristanMarquitaStephaniJonelle

Sibling names for Candis

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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