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Kandis

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kandis has been given to 2,727 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1987, with 135 recorded.

Babies named Kandis, 2016

1 in 408,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kandis: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kandis means

Kandis is a given name.

The naming story behind Kandis

Wikidata records Kandis as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q134762568, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,727 girls were recorded with the name Kandis between 1946 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 135 in 1987; its best national rank was #1,111 in 1987.

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 Kandis?

Kandis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 408,000
9 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 197,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
282,615 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kandis 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 2016 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 282,615 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kandis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kandiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kandis was born before 1984 — so the typical Kandis is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,639
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1980s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (1,021).

Is Kandis 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 1987 (135)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,111
1987

Spellings of Kandis

Kandis is not the most common spelling — Janis is, with 25.2% against Kandis'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 Kandis is used

Across 1910–2025, Kandis was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 167,876 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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. Kandis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kandis around the world

Where Kandis 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
    1991–1994
    #1,986
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1986–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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 Kandis

People whose public names include Kandis, 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.

Kandis 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
#1,111
1987
Peak year
1987
135 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
2,727
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kandis

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

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Names with a curve like Kandis

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

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Sibling names for Kandis

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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