Cordelia

[tummytickler]

What do you think of Cordelia? We liked it with dd1, but got bored with it then (9 years ago!), but we are starting to like it again.

Also Coral - is this too much with a dd2 called Pearl?

Thanks!

[othersideofchannel]

I love Cordelia. Have a good German friend called this.

[dizzydixies]

I love love love it, our DD3 is cordelia

has many lovely meanings

latin for heart
celtic for daughter of the sea
and King Leer's only good daughter

love it

[AllieW]

LOVE Cordelia, I think it's so pretty. My DH won't let me use it though

If you like Coral, how about Coralie? I think it's prettier and it's quite unusual. I think it's Victorian or slightly earlier and French.

[LynetteScavo]

I really like it, but would be scared it would be shortened to Delia.

[StrictlyKatty]

Love it!

[dizzydixies]

Lynette - definately no Delia in this house

[othersideofchannel]

Buffy? The Vampire?

[tummytickler]

Surely Buffy and Angel are long gone though, no? I never watched either so not sure how popular they were/are?

[dizzydixies]

good grief, I wouldn't let an old vampire programme worry you tummytickler its a lovely name and we get nothing but compliments on it

[Hobnobfanatic]

I couldn't - only because Cordelia dies an early death in King Lear and breaks her father's heart - I'm just too superstitious!

[LadyCressida]

My sister's name is Cordelia and she has always been called Dilly for short.

No one will remember the buffy character in 5 years time...

[gmtbst]

I don't like it, sorry.

[ronx]

Thumbs up from me!

[CelticStarlight]

Cordelia is lovely but I've always preferred her sister's name in King Lear, Regan. However, it's always had such negative connotations as the character Regan is so evil - I just can't get over the gouging out of the eyes scene.

Not even I could like Goneril though.

[jabberwocky]

I really like it. I have since I was a child and read a book about twins named Cordelia and Ophelia.

[mathanxiety]

Makes me think of Brideshead Revisited.

[dizzydixies]

Leonie, you need to let them go, they were cancelled for a reason & they're hardly likely to change history

[Ondine]

I love it, it's a classic but unusual. Also nice for a grown up too, so many names now are very cute for kids but don't translate to adulthood well imo.

I like Coral too but it's a well known bookies so I wouldn't use it.

[Bondwife]

I love it - hubby vetoed it as his mother is a Buffy freak

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

I love it. Great name.

[5DollarShake]

It's a lovely name. Why does it make me think of Anne of Green Gables?

Wouldn't worry about the Buffy connection - it's old hat now isn't it? Well, it certainly will be considered so by her generation.