If Candy doesn’t like being Candy, she can grow up and call herself C. Eleanor or something.
Or “Candida”, which is likely what her full name would be anyway if “her parents named her ‘Candy’”, and doesn’t have the same connotations as “Candy”.
“Candace”, surely? Candida is a genus of yeast.
Candace does appear to be far more common than Candida, but Candida broke the top 600 names in the 1930s. Even Candace is under that mark, now.
Or “Candida”, which is likely what her full name would be anyway if “her parents named her ‘Candy’”, and doesn’t have the same connotations as “Candy”.
“Candace”, surely? Candida is a genus of yeast.
Candace does appear to be far more common than Candida, but Candida broke the top 600 names in the 1930s. Even Candace is under that mark, now.