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The CANDY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,147 21295 0 4
United States (1880 census) 70 40185 0 1
Change since 1880 +1077 +18890 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 450 3539 0.003 28
United Kingdom 999 5263 0.002 22
Top States for CANDY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 125 26167 0.000 4
Texas 122 17669 0.001 6
Oklahoma 88 6738 0.003 26
Maryland 69 11379 0.001 13
Florida 66 33581 0.000 4
Top States for CANDY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Oklahoma 88 6738 0.003 26
Maryland 69 11379 0.001 13
Delaware 10 17029 0.001 13
Vermont 5 19697 0.001 8
New Jersey 63 22589 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CANDY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CANDY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CANDY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CANDY by picking someone at random in Oklahoma than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CANDY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CANDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CANDY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CANDY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 798 69.57
Black/African American 163 14.21
Asian/Pacific 69 6.02
Native American/Alaskan 46 4.01
Mixed Race 41 3.57
White (Hispanic) 30 2.62

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CANDY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CANDY in historical publications

CANDY. An island in Essex.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CANDY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CANDY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CANDY

The following words are slight variants of CANDY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.