Meaning and history
Candy is a diminutive of Candace that is also influenced by the English word candy.
20062006: 120 births, rank #1,734
2007: 119 births, rank #1,792
2008: 108 births, rank #1,949
2009: 153 births, rank #1,492
2010: 102 births, rank #1,959
20112011: 80 births, rank #2,326
2012: 81 births, rank #2,315
2013: 64 births, rank #2,706
2014: 57 births, rank #2,969
2015: 52 births, rank #3,177
20162016: 49 births, rank #3,280
2017: 45 births, rank #3,436
2018: 49 births, rank #3,245
2019: 45 births, rank #3,451
2020: 36 births, rank #3,915
20212021: 34 births, rank #4,167
2022: 32 births, rank #4,378
2023: 40 births, rank #3,763
2024: 40 births, rank #3,758
20252025: 30 births, rank #4,546
Candy moved from #850 to #948 for girls between 1989 and 1990. Its highest annual birth count came in 1970, with 1,044 births.