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Kandi

Girls' name

Variant of Candy

Kandi has been given to 5,547 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1981, with 202 recorded.

Babies named Kandi, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kandi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Candy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kandi means

Kandi is a variant of Candy.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kandi is used in English.

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Candy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,547 girls were recorded with the name Kandi between 1945 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 202 in 1981; its best national rank was #746 in 1970.

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 Kandi?

Kandi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kandi 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kandi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kandis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kandi was born before 1974 — so the typical Kandi is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,474
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (1,608).

Is Kandi 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 1981 (202)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#746
1970

Spellings of Kandi

Kandi is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 29.2% against Kandi's 0.58%.

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 Kandi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kandi was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 47,778 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Kansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Iowa1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Oregon1 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. Kandi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kandi around the world

Where Kandi 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
    2015–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kandi

People whose public names include Kandi, 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.

Kandi 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
#746
1970
Peak year
1981
202 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
5,547
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kandi

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

KandyKaniyaKandaceMandiSandiKanikaKansasAndiLyndiKaniyahKananiKanaKandisMindiCandiCindiLindiRandiCyndiKandiceKannaNandiKaniahKendi

Names with a curve like Kandi

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

CharisseFawnKevinTimothyDarcieJeffreyStevenMelonieJeanaDarciJeannaAdriane

Sibling names for Kandi

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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