Candy
Candy reached its high-water mark in 1970 at number 281, and has been recorded 28,625 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,546th. About 25,000 Candys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Candy boys named Candy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,625
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1970
- Best rank
- 281st
- Rank in 2025
- 4,546th
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 28,525 / 100
How old the living Candys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,625 babies given the name since 1896, about 25,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 6,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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.
Notable Candys
- Candy Dulfer (born 1969)Dutch saxophonist and singer
- Candy Clark (born 1947)American film and television actress
- Candy Barr (1935–2005)American pornographic actress, stripper
- Candy Reynolds (born 1955)American tennis player
- Candy Bauer (born 1986)German bobsledder
- Candy Costie (born 1963)American synchronized swimmer
- Candy Candido (1913–1999)American actor
People named Candy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Candy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Candy is most concentrated in Indiana (1.7×), Ohio (1.6×), California (1.5×), Oregon (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1970
The most popular girls’ names the year Candy peaked:
Candy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Candy | 2,325 | 158th |
| England and Wales girls | Candy | 84 | 1,319th |
| Belgium girls | Candy | 36 | 614th |
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.
Candy: rank by region
In 1995, Candy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Candy | 286 | 8 |
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.
Candy 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 | Candy | 6 | 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
Candy 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.