Candice

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Candice: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Candice: Recorded since 1980, its highest recorded position is #72, and it stood at #856 in 2023.

4registrars recorded it
53times a registrar ranked it
44years from first to last
#72highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2023

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#448
1997	#551
1998	#589
1999	#780
2000	#519
2001	#519
2002	#603
2003	#690
2004	#676
2005	#890
2006	#739
2007	#899
2008	#937
2009	#1248
2010	#1332
2011	#2432
2012	#1809
2013	#2176
2014	#1966
2015	#1649
2016	#2233
2017	#2706
2018	#3518
2019	#2869
2020	#3117
2021	#2711
2022	#2888
2023	#3218

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 18 of the 44 years from 1980 to 2023.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3218 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1980–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1980
First recorded at #542 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1980 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1981–1986
Highest recorded position: #72 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1982 (recorded 1981–1986).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #3218 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Candice appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 28 ranked years and 750 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1980.

Candice across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Candice's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#542 (1980)	#406 (2002)	#856 (2023)	18 of 44	86 (1980–2023)	7 (2004)
England and Wales · Girls	#448 (1996)	#448 (1996)	#3218 (2023)	28 of 28	750 (1996–2023)	66 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#82 (1981)	#72 (1982)	#96 (1986)	6 of 6	577 (1981–1986)	112 (1982)

Candice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Candice in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	186	4 of 10	47
2000sbusiest	405	10 of 10	41
2010s	128	10 of 10	13
2020s	31	4 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 41 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births rose by 26, from 29 to 55.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Candice appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1980 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #72 in New South Wales, Australia in 1982.

Candice's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2711	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1809	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#937	34	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#739	42	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#676	43	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#690	41	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#603	46	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#519	55	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#519	55	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#780	29	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#589	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#551	47	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#448	66	High	Verified
1986	New South Wales, Australia	female	#96	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
1985	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	97	Insufficient	Not yet available
1984	New South Wales, Australia	female	#81	97	Insufficient	Not yet available
1983	New South Wales, Australia	female	#78	99	Insufficient	Not yet available
1982	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	112	Insufficient	Not yet available
1981	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	95	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#384	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#663	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#424	7	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	7	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1980 and 2023, ranked in 35 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #72, first reached in 1982.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 6 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 112 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1982.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1981, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Cansu · #1697, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Chad · #72, 39y
Darcey · #72, 30y
Brody · #73, 30y
Elliott · #71, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1980s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1980 and 1989.

Bryce · #73, 36y
Elliott · #71, 34y
Hailey · #73, 35y
Lucie · #71, 31y

Candice was ranked #72 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1982. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Candice and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Candice without appearing here.

Candice moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Shauna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #3178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #4001.
Tyler Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3518 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Candice

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2711 and #1286.
Rita Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1332 and #1653 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2432 and #1067.
Liv Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1332 and #1584 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #2432 and #1117.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2888 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #1959.

Moved the opposite way to Candice

Abigail Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 while Abigail went from #370 to #84.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 while Alexandra went from #370 to #148.
Alice Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 while Alice went from #144 to #38.
Anna Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 while Anna went from #70 to #23.

Moved the same way as Candice

Alma Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 and Alma from #211 to #625.
Audrey Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 and Audrey from #67 to #856.
Diane Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 and Diane from #140 to #727.
Eileen Compare
Between 1980 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Candice went from #542 to #856 and Eileen from #66 to #445.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1980 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #72 in New South Wales, Australia in 1982. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Candice

Candice at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Candice across 3 official records

Candice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Candice appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Candice at a glance

Candice across 3 official records

Candice by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Candice appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1980s

Names published alongside Candice

Candice and the names beside it

Candice moved ahead of

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