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01 / Meaning & origin
Candide is a masculine given name.
Separate records with matching spellings: Candide (Turkish)
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02 / Across borders
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2025: 5 boys (rank 3135).
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: CANDIDE
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 680 | rounded |
| 1901 | 5 | 745 | rounded |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | 5 | 700 | rounded |
| 1904 | 5 | 702 | rounded |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | 5 | 683 | rounded |
| 1907 | 10 | 528 | rounded |
| 1908 | 5 | 707 | rounded |
| 1909 | 5 | 734 | rounded |
| 1910 | 5 | 789 | rounded |
| 1911 | 5 | 655 | rounded |
| 1912 | 10 | 612 | rounded |
| 1913 | 5 | 652 | rounded |
| 1914 | 5 | 902 | rounded |
| 1915 | 5 | 580 | rounded |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | 5 | 737 | rounded |
| 1918 | 5 | 631 | rounded |
| 1919 | 5 | 833 | rounded |
| 1920 | 5 | 733 | rounded |
| 1921 | 5 | 1,009 | rounded |
| 1922 | 5 | 943 | rounded |
| 1923 | 5 | 941 | rounded |
| 1924 | 5 | 783 | rounded |
| 1925 | 10 | 615 | rounded |
| 1926 | 10 | 707 | rounded |
| 1927 | 5 | 766 | rounded |
| 1928 | 5 | 823 | rounded |
| 1929 | 10 | 650 | rounded |
| 1930 | 5 | 861 | rounded |
| 1931 | 10 | 645 | rounded |
| 1932 | 5 | 1,054 | rounded |
| 1933 | 5 | 854 | rounded |
| 1934 | 5 | 966 | rounded |
| 1935 | 5 | 860 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 1,213 | rounded |
| 1937 | 5 | 1,083 | rounded |
| 1938 | 5 | 712 | rounded |
| 1939 | 5 | 970 | rounded |
| 1940 | 5 | 1,116 | rounded |
| 1941 | 5 | 953 | rounded |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | 5 | 1,253 | rounded |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | 10 | 877 | rounded |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | 5 | 1,024 | rounded |
| 1956 | 10 | 730 | rounded |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | 5 | 1,398 | rounded |
| 1959 | 5 | 1,568 | rounded |
| 1960 | 5 | 1,827 | rounded |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | 5 | 1,876 | rounded |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | 5 | 1,988 | rounded |
| 1968 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1969 | 10 | 956 | rounded |
| 1970 | 20 | 755 | rounded |
| 1971 | 25 | 660 | rounded |
| 1972 | 20 | 753 | rounded |
| 1973 | 30 | 651 | rounded |
| 1974 | 30 | 632 | rounded |
| 1975 | 20 | 729 | rounded |
| 1976 | 15 | 882 | rounded |
| 1977 | 15 | 978 | rounded |
| 1978 | 10 | 1,328 | rounded |
| 1979 | 20 | 829 | rounded |
| 1980 | 15 | 1,097 | rounded |
| 1981 | 10 | 1,386 | rounded |
| 1982 | 10 | 1,351 | rounded |
| 1983 | 5 | 1,740 | rounded |
| 1984 | 5 | 1,933 | rounded |
| 1985 | 5 | 1,865 | rounded |
| 1986 | 5 | 2,782 | rounded |
| 1987 | 5 | 2,747 | rounded |
| 1988 | 5 | 2,002 | rounded |
| 1989 | 5 | 2,461 | rounded |
| 1990 | 5 | 2,005 | rounded |
| 1991 | 5 | 2,332 | rounded |
| 1992 | 5 | 2,280 | rounded |
| 1993 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | 5 | 3,019 | rounded |
| 1996 | 5 | 2,258 | rounded |
| 1997 | 10 | 2,139 | rounded |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,632 | rounded |
| 1999 | 10 | 2,163 | rounded |
| 2000 | 5 | 3,192 | rounded |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,510 | rounded |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | 5 | 3,046 | rounded |
| 2004 | 5 | 5,887 | rounded |
| 2005 | 5 | 4,319 | rounded |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | 5 | 5,679 | rounded |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | 5 | 7,880 | rounded |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | 5 | 5,331 | rounded |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “CANDIDE” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
CANDIDE— “white”
In Breton, Guennolé, also called Wingallok, in Cornish, Gunwallo, was a celebrated saint, and was the counsellor who saved King Gradlon in the inundation. Guennola is the feminine, and is used, very correctly, to translate the French Candide, as is Guennéan, the white spirit, for angel, both the being and the name.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter IV (Names Of Cymric Romance), Section III (Gwenever) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
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