Given name
Cándido
“shining white”
Cándido is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Spanish.
Original LatinCandidus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cándido goes back to a word meaning “shining white.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cándido’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Cándido was borrowed from the Latin form CANDIDUS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cándido
- Cándido BareiroPresident of Paraguay (1833-1880)
- Cándido LópezArgentine artist (1840-1902)
- Cándido SibilioSpanish basketball player and coach (1958–2019)
- Cándido CameroCuban percussionist (1921-2020)
- Cándido Muatetema RivasPrime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (1960-2014)
- Cándido RamírezMexican footballerborn 1993
- Cándido NocedalSpanish politician (1821–1885)
- Cándido Conde-PumpidoSpanish judgeborn 1949
- Cándido FabréCuban musicianborn 1957
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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