Bible Names

Candace: meaning of the name

Candace means “who possesses contrition.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)girl name

Candace in Hebrew and Greek

Κανδάκη G2582

Kandákē — Candacè, an Egyptian queen

of foreign origin;

Who named Candace in the Bible

Candace in Scripture

“Candace” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Acts 8:27

    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,