Name Candace - meaning, origin, numerology

Candace is a female given name from the Bible, ultimately deriving from the term kandake, a title for a queen or queen mother in the ancient African Kingdom of Kush. In the United States, it was a popular name during the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s, and into the early 1990s.

Candace may refer to:

• Candace Allen (21st century), a Miss District of Columbia USA 2006
• Candace Allen (author) (21st century), a Hollywood screenwriter
• Candace Bailey (born 1982), an American actress
• Candace Bushnell (born 1958), an American writer
• Candace Cameron Bure (born 1976), an American actress
• Candace Camp (born 1949), a best-selling American writer
• Candace Charles (born 1990), a Miss Guyana 2007
• Candace Collins (born 1957), an American model and actress
• Candace Gingrich (born 1966), a LGBT rights activist
• Candace Glendenning (born 1953), an English actress
• Candace Glickman (21st century), a Miss New Hampshire 2003
• Candace Hilligoss (born 1935), an American actress
• Candace Hutson (21st century), an American actress
• Candace Introcaso (21st century), a President of La Roche College
• Candace Jones (born 1955), a Canadian figure skater
• Candace Kita (21st century), an American actress
• Candace Kroslak (born 1978), an American actress
• Candace Michelle Brown (born 1968), a Miss Alabama USA 1992
• Candace Newmaker (1989–2000), a victim of child abuse
• Candace O'Connor (born 1950), a freelance writer and editor
• Candace Otto (21st century), a Miss Pennsylvania 2003
• Candace Parker (born 1986), an American collegiate basketball player
• Candace Pert (born 1946), an American neuroscientist
• Candace Robb (born 1950), an English historical novelist
• Candace Savage (born 1949), a Canadian writer
• Candace Smith (21st century), an American actress, model and beauty queen
• Candace Talmadge (21st century), a liberal newspaper columnist
• Candace Vogler (21st century), an American philosopher
• Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), one of America's first woman interior and textile designers
• H. Candace Gorman (21st century), an American attorney

Fictional characters

• Candace Barkham, a fictional recurring character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Candace "Caddy" Compson, a fictional character from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Candace Flynn, Phineas' older sister and Ferb's stepsister from Phineas and Ferb.
• Candace Southern, a Marvel Comics supporting character

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English: from the hereditary name of a long line of queens of Ethiopia. One of them is mentioned in the Bible, when the apostle Philip baptizes ‘a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure’ (Acts 8: 27). This name is now much less common than its presumed derivative Candice.

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