Perdita (given name) explained

Perdita
Gender:	Feminine
Meaning:	lost
Language:	Latin

Perdita is a feminine given name derived from perditus, meaning lost. It was used by William Shakespeare for an abandoned princess, the heroine of his 1610 play The Winter's Tale, and for a canine heroine of Dodie Smith's 1956 book The Hundred and One Dalmatians and the Walt Disney Pictures 1961 film adaptation of the book, One Hundred and One Dalmatians.^[1]

Women

• Perdita Barran, English chemist
• Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author
• Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete
• Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist
• Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist
• Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress

Fiction

• Perdita (The Winter's Tale), the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale
• Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel And Berry Came Too by Dornford Yates
• Perdita Halley Reisden, a character in Sarah Smith's historical mystery seriesThe Vanished Child, The Knowledge of Water, Citizen of the Country and Crimes and Survivors
• Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, a character in the Witches subset of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
• Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character from the TV series The Haunting of Bly Manor
• Queen Perdita of Vlatava, a character of the animated superhero series Young Justice
• Perdita, a female Dalmatian dog in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith, and the media franchise based on the novel; see 101 Dalmatians (disambiguation)
• The Free Ship Perdita, a sky-sailing ship in the 1999 novel Stardust (1999) by Neil Gaiman

Notes and References

1. Book: Hanks. Patrick. Hardcastle. Kate . Hodges. Flavia. 2006. Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press . 60. 0-19-861060-2.