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Kandy vs Kansas

American parents have registered 5,311 Kandys since 1880, against 1,329 Kansases. But in 2025 it was Kansas that was commoner, 20 babies to 6.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kandy against Kansas, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kandy Kansas

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 91 years in which either name was published, Kandy for 50 years and Kansas for 41 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Kandy Kansas
Total US births 5,3111,329
Most in one year 19350
Babies in 2025 620
Estimated living today 4,7001,300
Median age today 5721
Peak year 19652002
Best rank 708th girls2,935th girls
Rank in 2025 13,208th7,133rd
First recorded 19441898
Girls / boys 5,306 / 51,231 / 98

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 Kandys alive today are over 57; half the Kansases are over 21. That is 36 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: Kandy and Kansas.