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Kandace

#12,518 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Candace

Kandace has been given to 6,323 babies in the U.S. since 1945. In 2025 it ranked #12,518 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 279 recorded.

Babies named Kandace, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kandace: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Candace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kandace means

Kandace is a variant of Candace.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kandace is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæn.dɪs/ and /ˈkæn.də.si/ for Kandace.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kandace → 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, 6,323 girls were recorded with the name Kandace between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 279 in 1988; its best national rank was #691 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,479 in 2020 to #12,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,930 in 2015 to #12,518 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.

How common is Kandace?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,518
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kandace 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 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kandace. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kandaces were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kandace was born before 1987 — so the typical Kandace is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,172
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1980s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (1,955).

Is Kandace 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
+1,805
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,039
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,588
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1988 (279)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#691
1988

Spellings of Kandace

Kandace is not the most common spelling — Candace is, with 48.0% against Kandace's 3.6%.

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 Kandace is used

Across 1910–2025, Kandace was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 45,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 25,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 33,333
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

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

Kandace around the world

Where Kandace 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #1,570
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1991–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kandace

People whose public names include Kandace, 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.

Kandace in other languages

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

CandaceKandice

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

Kandace by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,039
Best rank ever
#691
1988
Peak year
1988
279 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,323
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Kandace

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

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Names with a curve like Kandace

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

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Sibling names for Kandace

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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