🔥Cressida

KRESS-i-da
Greek
"gold"

Cressida Origin and Meaning

The name Cressida is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "gold".

Cressida is a pretty mythological and Shakespearean heroine name much better known in Britain than it is here — an imbalance the adventurous baby namer might want to correct.

Although the Trojan heroine named Cressida in the tale told by Boccaccio, then Chaucer, then Shakespeare, didn't have the greatest reputation — she was faithless to Troilus and broke his heart — the name today sounds fresh, crisp and creative.

In Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Cressida is a film director character; Cressida Cowell is the author of the popular novel series How to Train Your Dragon.

# 236 on Nameberry

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Famous People Named Cressida

  • Cressida Curzon "Cressy" Bonas
    English actress; ex,girlfriend of Prince Harry
  • Cressida Rose Dick
    British Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
  • Cressida Cowell
    English novelist
  • Cressida Bell
    English artist and designer
  • Cressida Heyes
    Canadian philosopher

Cressida in Pop Culture

  • Cressida
    mythological figure during the Trojan war; daughter of the Greek seer Calchas, who falls in love with Prince Troilus of Troy
  • Cressida
    character in The Hunger Games series
  • Cressida Baylor
    ex,girlfriend of the title character in 'Hitch'
  • Cressida "Cressie" MacPhail
    character in 'The Wedding Group' (1968) by Elizabeth Taylor
  • "Troilus and Cressida
    " Shakespeare play based on the myth