Given name · also Late Latin
Candida
“white”·“a white-skinned woman”
Candida is used as a given name. Interpretations include “white” (Late Latin) and “a white-skinned woman” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Original LatinCandidus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “white” (Late Latin) and “a white-skinned woman” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
From Spanish Cándida,Candida, from Latin Candida.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Candida through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,580
- 0 boys · 3,580 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 222 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 222 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,104 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Candida’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Candida has a diminutive in Didang. Candida has a related form in Candide. In Latin usage, Candida has a related form in CANDIDUS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Candida has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Candida comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Candida
- Candida HöferGerman photographer (born 1944)
- Candida AlvarezAmerican visual artist (born 1955)
- Candida XuChinese Christian patron of late Ming and early Qing1607–1680
- Candida MossBritish bible scholarborn 1978
- Candy RaymondAustralian actress1950–2025
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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