🔥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. For although the Trojan heroine of that name 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.
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
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