Càndid

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Càndid is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain≈1 in 2.7M
  • USUnited States1 in 3.2M

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)

104 people, 2020

Record sources
25 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Candid in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Càndid 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.

Where Càndid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1041 in 3.2M93Candid25
ES Spain≈19 est.≈1 in 2.7M20Candid12
MD Moldova21 in 1.7M2——
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1—2
AR Argentina———Candid12

104 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; INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); e-services.md — living population register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Càndid is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Candid

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Candid

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Candid

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Càndid 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 Catalan, naive, ingenuous

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
184018601880190019201940Cándido Candi, b. 1844Càndid Bayés i Coch, b. 1867Makala, b. 1921

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

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

Is Càndid a male or female name?
Càndid is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Càndid have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 104 people named Càndid, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled candid.
Where is Càndid most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Càndid is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Càndid?
In the United States, the national register counted 104 people named Càndid in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A0ndid

The 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, “Càndid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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