🔥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 in the US. Given to just 7 girls in a recent year, it shares the cool golden meaning of Aurelia, Orla, and Goldie, and offers cute Cassie- alternative nickname Cressie, along with Ida and Sid too.

Ultimately derived from the Greek name Chryses, first via its patronymic Chryseis, then through Criseida, the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio's spin on it, Cressida is the form that finally appears in Shakespeare's Cressida and Troilus. While she doesn't have the best of literary reputations — in the works by Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Chaucer, she is faithless to her Trojan lover Troilus and breaks his heart — the name remains a fresh, crisp, and arty feeling option today.

In Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Cressida is a film director character; while in the "real world", Cressida Cowell is the author of the popular novel series How to Train Your Dragon and Cressida Bonas is an actress and model.

Cressida Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 425 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Cressida

• 425 Nameberry 2025

20 Names Similar to Cressida

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• Rowena
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• Isadora
• Phaedra
• Guinevere
• Calliope
• Cassiopeia
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• Morgana
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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

The name 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