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), a Hollywood screenwriter
- Candace Allen (beauty queen), Miss District of Columbia USA 2006
- Candace Bailey, an American actress
- Candace Cameron Bure, an American actress
- Candace Bushnell, an American writer
- Candace Camp, a best-selling American writer
- Candace Charles, Miss Guyana 2007
- Candace Collins, an American model and actress
- Candace Gingrich, an LGBT rights activist
- Candace Glendenning, an English actress
- Candace Glickman, Miss New Hampshire 2003
- Candace Hilligoss, an American actress
- Candace Introcaso, the President of La Roche College
- Candace Jones, a Canadian figure skater
- Candace Kita, an American actress
- Candace Kroslak, an American actress
- Candace Newmaker, a victim of child abuse
- Candace O'Connor, a freelance writer and editor
- Candace Otto, a Miss Pennsylvania 2003
- Candace Owens, American commentator and political activist
- Candace Parker, an American collegiate basketball player
- Candace Pert, an American neuroscientist
- Candace Robb, an English historical novelist
- Candace Savage, a Canadian writer
- Candace Lynn Starr, American murder victim
- Candace Talmadge, a liberal newspaper columnist
- Candace Vogler, an American philosopher
- Candace Wheeler, one of America's first woman interior and textile designers
- H. Candace Gorman, 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''