Perdita (first name)
Perdita is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
The first name Perdita goes back to the playwright William Shakespeare . He had given the name, which means “the lost one” and is derived from the Latin perditus , to a character in his drama The Winter's Tale .
Well-known namesake
- Perdita Felicien (* 1980), Canadian hurdler
- Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress