Candace (given name)

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

People with the given name

• Candace Allen (author) (born 1950), a Hollywood screenwriter
• Candace Allen (beauty queen) (21st century), Miss District of Columbia USA 2006
• Candace Bailey (born 1982), an American actress
• Candace Cameron Bure (born 1976), an American actress
• Candace Bushnell (born 1958), an American writer
• Candace Camp (born 1949), a best-selling American writer
• Candace Charles (born 1990), Miss Guyana 2007
• Candace Collins (born 1957), an American model and actress
• Candace Gingrich (born 1966), an LGBT rights activist
• Candace Glendenning (born 1953), an English actress
• Candace Glickman (21st century), Miss New Hampshire 2003
• Candace Hilligoss (born 1935), an American actress
• Candace Introcaso, the 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 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 Oviatt, American ecologist
• Candace Owens (born 1989), American commentator and political activist
• Candace Parker (born 1986), an American collegiate basketball player
• Candace Pert (1946–2013), an American neuroscientist
• Candace Robb (born 1950), an English historical novelist
• Candace Savage (born 1949), a Canadian writer
• Candace Lynn Starr (born 1975), American murder victim
• 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 with the given name

• 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
• Candace, a character in 2020 video game Genshin Impact

See also

• Candace, other uses of the word.
• Candice, a rarer variant spelling