Candace is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Candace is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,040 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,039 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 81,495 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Candace. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
#99 - this is the highest position Candace has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Candace reached this top spot at the end of the past century in 1984 when 2,686newborn girls were named Candace. But as our statistics show, Candace hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1908, it was given to newborns not at all or at least less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics only if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Candace has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well in our modern times. From zero to hero – even if its peak is in the past, Candace has become a fashionable name after all.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Candace was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 65 newborn girls were given the name Candace, making this first name #2,374. Towards the end of the last century, the name had a real flight of fancy and still captivates many people today − just like the music of the 80s. So, the chances to meet a young Candace are still quite high.
The name Candace may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Candace is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,043 women in Hawaii is called Candace. In total, that’s 423 women who feel addressed when the name Candace is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #289 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Candace as the answer a total of 81,495 times. This places Candace at #382 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Candace as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Candace has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Candace and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Candace, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Candace
Candace
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
N
D
A
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
N
D
A
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Candace sounds like this:
