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Kandice

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kandice has been given to 6,823 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 1985, with 298 recorded.

Babies named Kandice, 2023

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kandice: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kandice means

Kandice is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kandice is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,823 girls were recorded with the name Kandice between 1945 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 298 in 1985; its best national rank was #628 in 1985.

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 Kandice?

Kandice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
208,877 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kandice 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 2023 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 208,877 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kandice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kandices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kandice was born before 1986 — so the typical Kandice is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
38.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,744
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (2,620).

Is Kandice 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (298)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#628
1985

Spellings of Kandice

Kandice is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 66.2% against Kandice's 1.1%.

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 Kandice is used

Across 1910–2025, Kandice was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 37,646 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 16,667
  3. 3Utah1 in 16,667
  4. 4Georgia1 in 20,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 20,000
  6. 6California1 in 25,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 33,333
  8. 8Arkansas1 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. Kandice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kandice around the world

Where Kandice 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
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • France
    1999–2024
    #7,054
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kandice

People whose public names include Kandice, 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.

Kandice in other languages

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

CandiceKandace

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

Kandice 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
#628
1985
Peak year
1985
298 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6,823
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kandice

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

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Names with a curve like Kandice

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

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Sibling names for Kandice

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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