Meaning and history
Cándida is a Latin name derived from candidus, meaning “white.” It was borne by several early saints, including a woman said to have been healed by Saint Peter, and it entered use as an English name after George Bernard Shaw’s play Candida (1898).
19981998: no US SSA record for this spelling
1999: no US SSA record for this spelling
2000: no US SSA record for this spelling
2001: no US SSA record for this spelling
2002: no US SSA record for this spelling
20032003: no US SSA record for this spelling
2004: no US SSA record for this spelling
2005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 10 births, rank #10,611
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
20082008: 5 births, rank #17,504
2009: 10 births, rank #10,679
2010: 6 births, rank #14,959
2011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: 6 births, rank #14,962
20132013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: 7 births, rank #13,069
2015: 5 births, rank #16,419
2016: no US SSA record for this spelling
20172017: 6 births, rank #14,124
Candida moved from #834 to #886 for girls between 1975 and 1976. Its highest annual birth count came in 1971, with 222 births.