Fidelia (given name)

Fidelia

Fidelia and Speranza by Benjamin West, 1776.
Gender	Female
Language(s)	Latin
Origin
Meaning	faithful
Other names
Related names	Delia, Fadelia, Fedelia, Fedella, Fedelma, Fida, Fidea, Fidel, Fidele, Fidelice, Fidelina, Fidelise, Fidelity, Fidella, Fidelle, Fidelma, Fides, Fidessa, Fiducia, Fydell, Fydella, Phidelia, Phidella

Fidelia is a feminine given name derived from the Latin fidelis, meaning faithful. It was in use by the Puritans as a virtue name and was particularly well used in various forms in the 19th century. ^[1]

Women

• Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923), American artist
• Fidelia Brindis Camacho (1889–1972), Mexican teacher, journalist, suffragist, women's rights activist and politician
• Fidelia Fielding (1827-1908), American Member of the Mohegan Pequot people, and last-known speaker of the traditional Mohegan Pequot language
• Fidelia Fisk (1816-1864), American Congregationalist missionary and teacher
• L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette (1827-1905), American Universalist minister
• Fidelia Heard (1822-1895), an American captain's wife who made important initial contributions to research on Heard Island, an Antarctic island now part of Australia's Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
• Fidelia Jewett (1851–1933), American educator
• Fidelia Njeze (born 1964), Nigerian diplomat
• Ana Fidelia Quirot (born 1963), Cuban former track and field athlete and Olympian

See also

• Fidelia (pseudonym), a popular pseudonym of 18th-century English writers

Notes

1. Charbonneau, Karen (March 17, 2023). American Baby Girl Names: 1587-1920s. Post Falls, Idaho: A Ship's Cat Book. p. 328. ASIN   B0BYTTGH3L.