Candace was the royal title of the queen of the Ethiopians, whose treasurer was reading Isaiah when Philip explained the gospel to him and baptised him — one of the first African converts to Christianity.
Elegant and familiar, Candace means queen and marks the gospel's early reach to the ends of the earth.
Variants & nicknames
Candice, Candy
Candace in the Bible
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,