Kandy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of candy (Indian unit of mass)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kʰandʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kandy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 82K
- GAGabon≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
4,454 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of candy (Indian unit of mass)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kandy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,454 | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Kandy | 292 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Kandy | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Kandy | 65 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Kandy | 6 |
| PE Peru | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Kandy | 16 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Kandy | 17 |
| LA Laos | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Kandy | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Kandy | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Kandy | 2 |
| GA Gabon | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | — | — |
4,454 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kandy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Sri Lanka
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kandy Cordovab. 1936USAmerican politician (1936– 2023)
- Kandy Kennedyb. 1996AUAustralian rugby league player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #4,268 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 193 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 192 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 190 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 188 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 181 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 173 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 166 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 166 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 164 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1956 | 163 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 159 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kandy mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of candy (Indian unit of mass) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kandy?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰandʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kandy a male or female name?
- Kandy is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kandy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Kandy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kandy.
- How common is the name Kandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,454 people named Kandy in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kandy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kandyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kandy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.