Candida

Where Candida comes from

From Spanish Cándida, Candida, from Latin Candida, from candida, feminine of candidus (“shining white”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Candida
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,561 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1944
    Candida Höfer born
    German photographer
  3. 1955
    Candida Alvarez born
    American visual artist
  4. 1971
    Peak, #686
    222 babies named Candida — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1977
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,199.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish [in turn from Latin].
Namesakes
  • Candida Höfer · German photographer, born 1944
  • Candida Alvarez · American visual artist, born 1955
  • Candida Xu · Chinese Christian patron of late Ming and early Qing, 1607–1680
  • Candida Moss · British bible scholar, born 1978
  • Candida Lycett Green · British writer, 1942–2014

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.