Message: "Cordelia" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Cordelia

by Puck (BBH)

9/29/2016, 8:52 AM

How does everyone feel about Cordelia right now? I feel like it's upward-bound.

#Cordelia

This message was edited 9/29/2016, 8:56 AM

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- Loads of Randomness

10/1/2016, 4:49 AM

It's nice, I can't see it on a really young child but it's definitely pretty

- erb816

9/30/2016, 10:51 AM

It's one of my favorite Shakespearean names (from my favorite of his plays), and feels very glamorous to me. A long time ago Cordelia was in my Top 10, and more recently Delia was (and Delia is also a name in my family tree). I could see myself using Cordelia in the future.

Some combos (the more magical the middle name, the better, imo):

Cordelia Blair
Cordelia Briar
Cordelia Briony / Cordelia Bryony
Cordelia Cecily
Cordelia Claire
Cordelia Damaris
Cordelia Danae
Cordelia Fae / Cordelia Faye
Cordelia Fern
Cordelia Florence
Cordelia Gráinne / Cordelia Grania
Cordelia Guinevere
Cordelia Gwen
Cordelia Gwendoline
Cordelia Heather
Cordelia Hera
Cordelia Hope
Cordelia Jane
Cordelia Joan
Cordelia Joanna
Cordelia Josephine
Cordelia Loane
Cordelia Lois
Cordelia Lorenne
Cordelia Louise
Cordelia Melisande
Cordelia Morwen
Cordelia Nicole
Cordelia Nicolette
Cordelia Noelle
Cordelia Norine
Cordelia Nolwenn
Cordelia Nora
Cordelia Rhiannon
Cordelia Rowan
Cordelia Seren
Cordelia Sheridan
Cordelia Vianne
Cordelia Violet
Cordelia Vivian / Cordelia Vivien
Cordelia Willow
Cordelia Winifred
Cordelia Wren
Cordelia Wynne
Cordelia Zoe

This message was edited 9/30/2016, 10:53 AM

- Sadie-Janae +4

9/30/2016, 2:40 AM

One of my best friends has Cordelia and Cassandra as her top picks for girls. I like it well enough, though it's not something I'd use myself.

- Puck (BBH) +3

9/30/2016, 7:38 AM

I could not see myself using it either, but it seems like one of those names that is going to become very popular, like Isabella did. Oh, gosh.

- KittyLove301 (BuckeyedPeach86) +2

9/30/2016, 9:59 AM

hey, at least Cordelia won't be tied to a Twilight character! lol

- Tisiphone +1

9/30/2016, 2:16 PM

Three of my all time favourite names, including a lovely old family name. Ruined!!!!

- KittyLove301 (BuckeyedPeach86)

10/1/2016, 12:27 PM

OMG WHY DO I KEEP SAYING THE WRONG THINGS

AT THE WRONGEST TIMES??? *sobs*

This message was edited 10/1/2016, 12:29 PM

- Wordsmith +2

9/29/2016, 7:23 PM

I think it is, too. I prefer Cornelia because it's less popular.

- Puck (BBH) +1

9/30/2016, 10:13 AM

I almost like Cornelia, but the corn part makes me feel awkwardly.

I like Nelia by itself a lot, and had a Nelia sighting recently.

This message was edited 9/30/2016, 10:14 AM

- Wordsmith

9/30/2016, 10:21 AM

I'm not bothered by the "corn" part because a) I love corn (aesthetically and somatically) and b) I pronounce it "cor-NEEL-ee-uh."

- number1212

9/29/2016, 6:49 PM

I kind of like it, but I don't think I would ever use it.

- Asherah

9/29/2016, 5:54 PM

I love it. It's been on my list for a few years.

- solveig (guest)

9/29/2016, 2:47 PM

It is.

I know of two Cordelias and I can see it taking off.

- Ariane (guest)

9/29/2016, 1:16 PM

At mention of the Name Cordelia, I always think first of "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh & Lady Cordelia Flyte with the protagonists Charles Ryder and Lord Sebastian Flyte.
For me, therefore, Cordelia has a aristocratic circles sounding style with a melodramtic touch, actually do not like it very well.

- Anneza +2

9/29/2016, 12:47 PM

I don't much admire the Shakespeare character - the whole tragedy could have been avoided if she'd only put common courtesy above her own tight little identity - and I also dislike the way Cordelia sounds like Cornelia with a bad cold.

Delia is fine; so is the much less common Deliana and its sadly obsolete English version, Dillian.

- erb816 +1

9/30/2016, 11:04 AM

In defense of the character...

"I don't much admire the Shakespeare character - the whole tragedy could have been avoided if she'd only put common courtesy above her own tight little identity..."

The reason she was disinherited was not that she eschewed "common courtesy," but because she refused to take advantage of her father's growing dementia. Cordelia, Kent / Caius, and the Fool are the only characters willing to stand up to Lear and tell it like it is, and the first two suffer retaliation only because they are outnumbered by either active manipulators (Goneril, Regan & Co.) or enablers too afraid to say or do anything. So basically, the case of the tragedy is her own genuine, filial love for her father.

- Solveig (cynthiajames)

9/30/2016, 3:17 PM

Agree.

I love King Lear.

- queenv

9/29/2016, 11:45 AM

Well, we can always check out whether or not it's upward-bound by looking at its popularity statistics. For 2014 and 2015, it made a reappearance in the top thousand, going from #993 to #948, so yes, it's safe to say it's upward-bound.

I like Cordelia quite a lot. I have it on my PNL. It avoids the corniness of Cornelia.

- lakin5

9/29/2016, 11:01 AM

I find it too stuffy even for someone who likes frilly names!

- Danno (guest)

9/29/2016, 11:00 AM

I used to not care for it but now I don't mind it. I do prefer Delia more but Cordelia is fine.

Makes me think of Buffy the vampire slayer (:

- RDNZL (Billina)

9/29/2016, 10:50 AM

I like it fine. I wouldn't use it myself, but I would admire someone who did.

- RoxStar +2

9/29/2016, 9:47 AM

I think it's ugly ugly ugly. Heavy and cold and painfully self-conscious and stagy, the kind of name that gets a lot of fawnign and swooning only on the Internet.

- queenv +1

9/29/2016, 11:48 AM

I feel I have to disagree with the "only on the internet" stance. It seems that Cordelia is following Penelope's path on a rocket to popularity. I think we will see a lot of fawning and swooning IRL. Fashions change, names that were popular in the 1980s are sinking like stones and new ones are taking their place.

- Solveig (guest)

9/29/2016, 2:49 PM

Yep. It just started charting two years ago.

It's not my style, at all, but it have a very 'in' vibe

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