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Kandee vs Kandice

American parents have registered 6,823 Kandices since 1880, against 505 Kandees. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kandee against Kandice, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kandee 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 79 years in which either name was published, Kandice for 78 years and Kandee for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kandee Kandice
Total US births 5056,823
Most in one year 20298
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4406,500
Median age today 5738
Peak year 19641985
Best rank 2,825th girls628th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19451945
Girls / boys 505 / 06,823 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Kandees alive today are over 57; half the Kandices are over 38. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kandee and Kandice.