Candela
About 77 American babies have been named Candela since 2002, most of them around 2005. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 80 Candelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Candela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 77
- Estimated living today
- 80
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 8,330th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 2002
How old the living Candelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 77 babies given the name since 2002, about 80 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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 Candelas
- Candela Peña (born 1973)Spanish actress
People named Candela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year Candela peaked:
Candela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Candela | 25,431 | 31st |
| France girls | Candela | 65 | 3,905th |
| England and Wales girls | Candela | 17 | 4,645th |
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.
Candela: rank by region
In 2024, Candela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Rioja | Candela | 7 | 12 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – 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.
Where Candela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 28,070 women called Candela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Candela | 414 | 2.113 | 112 |
| Badajoz | Candela | 707 | 2.098 | 110 |
| Granada | Candela | 941 | 1.957 | 101 |
| Coruña, A | Candela | 1,139 | 1.927 | 104 |
| Pontevedra | Candela | 897 | 1.829 | 118 |
| Cádiz | Candela | 1,131 | 1.765 | 114 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Candela 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.