Candida

Latin name derived from candidus meaning "white". This was the name of several early saints, including a woman supposedly healed by Saint Peter. As an English name, it came into use after George Bernard Shaw's play Candida (1898).

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1. Nuorluoto, Tuomo. Roman Female Cognomina. Uppsala, 2021, page 251.

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