Candelario
Candelario is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192938 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1907
- 2,308people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,308 boys have been named Candelario in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1929, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1920s alone account for 12%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Candelario | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 82 | |
| 1920s | 269 | |
| 1930s | 231 | |
| 1940s | 260 | |
| 1950s | 267 | |
| 1960s | 188 | |
| 1970s | 263 | |
| 1980s | 241 | |
| 1990s | 238 | |
| 2000s | 157 | |
| 2010s | 85 | |
| 2020s | 22 |
In 1929, its biggest year
Candelario was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1929 were Robert, James, John, William and Charles. See all of 1929.
Names that rose and fell with Candelario
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Porfiriopeak 1921
- Florentinopeak 1992
- Eulaliopeak 1929
- Rosaliopeak 1994
- Modestopeak 1927
- Isidoropeak 1929
- Venturapeak 1938
- Anselmopeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.