It's fine. I mean, on certain people it sure can come across as trashy. And there are people who'd embrace that as a cool thing. But I think of it as a normal nickname for
Candace, rather dated but not childish or sleazy. If I hear it as the name of an average woman to me it's like
Randi for
Miranda or
Mindy for
Melinda ... it's just a name. A perfectly ordinary, familiar form of a dignified name. For heavensake.
I hate that
Iggy Pop song and I think the name seems trashy in the song, on purpose.
- mirfak