Candice
Candice reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 78, and has been recorded 68,139 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,099th. About 64,000 Candices are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Candice boys named Candice
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 68,139
- Estimated living today
- 64,000
- Median age today
- 42
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 78th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,099th
- First recorded
- 1925
- Girls / boys
- 67,984 / 155
How old the living Candices are
born that year still alive today
Of the 68,139 babies given the name since 1925, about 64,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 6,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
A variant of Candace associated with Late Latin candida (“whiteness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Candices
- Candice Bergen (born 1946)American actress
- Candice King (born 1987)American actress and singer
- Candice Swanepoel (born 1988)South African model
- Candice Patton (born 1988)American actress
- Candice Night (born 1971)American musician
- Candice Michelle (born 1978)American model, actress and professional wrestler
- Candice Boucher (born 1983)South African model
- Candice Glover (born 1989)American singer
People named Candice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Candice is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Candice is most concentrated in Utah (1.7×), New Mexico (1.3×), Tennessee (1.3×), Georgia (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Candice peaked:
Candice elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Candice | 23,955 | 52nd |
| England and Wales girls | Candice | 754 | 448th |
| Belgium girls | Candice | 292 | 491st |
| Scotland girls | Candice | 237 | 270th |
| Switzerland girls | Candice | 165 | 372nd |
| Ireland girls | Candice | 86 | 414th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Candice | 3 | 384th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Candice: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Candice | 13 | 0.001% | 1,160th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Candice | 152 | 0.035% | 112th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Candice is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.04% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Candice: rank by region
In 2024, Candice was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Candice | 460 | 5 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Candice appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (220th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Candice among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Candice | 9 | 12 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Candice against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.