Kandace vs Kandice
American parents have registered 6,823 Kandices since 1880, against 6,323 Kandaces. But in 2025 it was Kandace that was commoner, 7 babies to fewer than five.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Kandace Kandice
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Kandace for 43 years and Kandice for 38 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1945–1970 Kandace ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1971–1987 Kandice ahead
- 1993–2001 Kandace ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2002–2018 Kandice ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2019–2025 Kandace ahead
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Kandace | Kandice | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,323 | 6,823 |
| Most in one year | 279 | 298 |
| Babies in 2025 | 7 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 6,000 | 6,500 |
| Median age today | 37 | 38 |
| Peak year | 1988 | 1985 |
| Best rank | 691st girls | 628th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 11,932nd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1945 | 1945 |
| Girls / boys | 6,323 / 0 | 6,823 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Kandace Louisiana (3.1×), Texas (2.6×), Tennessee (1.8×)
- Kandice Oklahoma (2.4×), Texas (2.4×), Utah (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kandace and Kandice.