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Candyce

Girls' name

Variant of Candace

Candyce has been given to 3,014 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 102 recorded.

Babies named Candyce, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Candyce: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Candace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Candyce means

Candyce is a variant of Candace.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Candyce is used in English.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Candyce → 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, 3,014 girls were recorded with the name Candyce between 1943 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 102 in 1985; its best national rank was #929 in 1949.

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 Candyce?

Candyce had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Candyce 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Candyce. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Candyces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Candyce was born before 1977 — so the typical Candyce is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,693
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1980s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (770).

Is Candyce 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 (102)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#929
1949

Spellings of Candyce

Candyce is not the most common spelling — Candace is, with 40.3% against Candyce's 1.4%.

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 Candyce is used

Across 1910–2025, Candyce was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 119,192 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Dakota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Mexico1 in 100,000

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

Candyce around the world

Where Candyce 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
    1974–2025
    #5,756
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,131
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1972–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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

Candyce 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
#929
1949
Peak year
1985
102 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,014
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Candyce

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

CandidaJustyceCandieCandiseCandanceGrayceCandelariaCandraCandisCanaryKayceBryceRoyceCanaanCandiceCanyonCandeeKandyceJayceCandaceGladyceCaniyahCandissCandi

Names with a curve like Candyce

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

RandeeRandaCandisJacqulynSherrellJaniseJacquelynnKyleRoseannaJacquelyneNereidaPortia

Sibling names for Candyce

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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