Candy vs Ginger

Candy

name
  • A pet form of the female given name Candace or Candice. 

  • A surname. 

  • The Mediterranean island of Crete. 

  • The Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka; (by extension) the British colony of Ceylon on that island. 

  • The city of Kandy, the capital of that kingdom. 

Ginger

name
  • A given name for animals having ginger- or orange-coloured fur or feathers. 

  • A male nickname. 

  • A female given name from English and nickname. 

How often have the words Candy and Ginger occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )