Entry № 2184 · Greek origin

Cressida Cressida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KRES-ih-duh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Gold (Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "gold (shakespeare's troilus and cressida)".

Cressida is from the Greek Khryseis (gold, golden) — the daughter of Calchas in the Trojan War cycle. A vintage Shakespearean name in the modern revival. Troilus and Cressida (1602) — Shakespeare's problem play; Cressida is a Trojan woman whose love for the Greek prince Troilus and subsequent unfaithfulness with Diomedes became one of the most-debated examples of female inconstancy in English literature.

Gold (Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Cressida
Transliteration
Cressida
Pronunciation
/ ˈkrɛs.ɪ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cressida stands.

Cressida does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cressidas before her.

Real people
Cressida Cowell
British children's author.
born 1966
Cressida Dick
First woman Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
born 1960
In fiction
Cressida
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.
1602

Names connected to Cressida.

The number behind Cressida.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cressida reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.