Portuguese (Cândido) and Italian: from Portuguese
cândido, Italian candito ‘(shining) white’ (Latin
candidus, a derivative of candere ‘to be white’), hence
a nickname for someone with white hair. The word also came to mean
‘innocent’, ‘simple’, and the surname may often originally have had
this sense.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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