🔥Cressida
KRESS-i-da
Greek
"gold"
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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.
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Famous People Named Cressida
- Cressida Curzon "Cressy" BonasEnglish actress; ex,girlfriend of Prince Harry
- Cressida Rose DickBritish Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police
- Cressida CowellEnglish novelist
- Cressida BellEnglish artist and designer
- Cressida HeyesCanadian philosopher
The name Cressida in Pop Culture
- Cressidamythological figure during the Trojan war; daughter of the Greek seer Calchas, who falls in love with Prince Troilus of Troy
- Cressidacharacter in The Hunger Games series
- Cressida Baylorex,girlfriend of the title character in 'Hitch'
- Cressida "Cressie" MacPhailcharacter in 'The Wedding Group' (1968) by Elizabeth Taylor
- "Troilus and Cressida" Shakespeare play based on the myth
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