Candance
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- Girl
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Candance is a girls' name, meaning “title of Kushite queens”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Candance mean?
Variant of Candace, from Kandake, the Meroitic title of the queens of Kush, via Greek and Latin
“title of Kushite queens”
Variant of Candace, the title of the queens of Kush; the Bible's Acts of the Apostles mentions a Candace, queen of the Ethiopians.
Is Candance a girl's or a boy's name?
Candance is a girls' name.
How popular is Candance in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1981, with 93 girls. It first appears in the records in 1945.
Half of all the girls named Candance in the US since 1880 were born between 1967 and 1986, the years shaded on the chart below.
Candance in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #11,594 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,798 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,011 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,006 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,531 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,153 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,213 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,732 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,340 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,713 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,613 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,898 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,637 |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,855 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,788 |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,496 |
| 1982 | 80 | #1,489 |
| 1981 | 93 | #1,340 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,657 |
| 1979 | 60 | #1,795 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,938 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,162 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,840 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,136 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,616 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,019 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,920 |
| 1971 | 76 | #1,389 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,330 |
| 1969 | 44 | #1,871 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,776 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,905 |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,646 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,110 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,674 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,893 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,356 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,459 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,306 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,457 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,375 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,650 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,896 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,155 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,377 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,782 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,977 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,884 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,252 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,696 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,125 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,088 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,093 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,131 |
Nicknames for Candance
Names like Candance
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Michelle, Nicole, Danielle, Christine, Celeste, Katherine, Amy, Julie, Christina, Jamie, Leslie, Janelle
Names related to Candance
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Candance: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/candance, updated 20 October 2026.