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Will people think of Buffy?!

53 replies

VikingLady · 15/02/2015 11:03

We're at 34w pg now, and the need for a girl's name is getting desperate! We're both picky but liking different names, but I thought we had finally decided on Cordelia.

But I told a friend who immediately thought Buffy. DH then said that was what someone in his office said as well. Will everyone think that? Is it still popular? I just thought Shakespeare, but I freely admit I'm pretty put of touch!

Help! I don't want to have to find another name!

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OatcakeCravings · 15/02/2015 12:51

I would immediately think of Buffy, but it's not a bad thing IMO

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 15/02/2015 12:19

I love Cordelia Smile. I was a huge Buffy fa back in the day but it would still only be a fleeting thought for me. Don't think it will be an association for most people.

BabyNeedsChocolate · 15/02/2015 12:09

I love it (always have because of Shakespeare and Anne of Green Gables, as well as a distant family connection) and it would have been on our current shortlist if the bump had turned out to be a girl.

DH also managed to sneak Faith and Anya onto our list of girls' names, and (Ale)Xander onto the boys' list, so I think his reasons for liking it might be a bit more Buffy-related than mine!

But it is a beautiful name and has lots of history and associations beyond the TV show. Also, as people have said, Buffy was out years ago so not everyone will pick up on it, and those that do won't necessarily have negative associations. It isn't like giving your child a Game of Thrones name.

Scotslasslivinginfrance · 15/02/2015 11:59

I really like it and only made the connection because you brought it up. I think that Buffy was long enough ago that people won't think immediately think you named her after a character. It's a lovely not over used name but as a result people will remember where they have heard it before as it is not common but not in a negative way.

IsadoraQuagmire · 15/02/2015 11:59

Buffy is on cable every day and it's a cult TV show, so not being around when it was originally shown is irrelevant. I'm 18 and it's one of my favorite shows.
Anyway, I'd think of King Lear first, and probably the next thing I'd think of is Anne of Green Gables (she always wanted to be called Cordelia instead of Anne, and her best friend Diana named her first daughter Anne Cordelia)

Nervo · 15/02/2015 11:58

I watched Buffy.

However, my first thought was 'lovely' as Buffy was too many years ago for me to remember names. Only Cordelia I am aware of is Cordelia Fine (author).

McKayz · 15/02/2015 11:58

I would think Buffy straight away. But it is a lovely name.

Primaryteach87 · 15/02/2015 11:58

FWIW I do think of Buffy, but I think of her in Angel - where is really quite awesome, clever, caring, capable force of nature. So only positive connotations.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 15/02/2015 11:56

The only Cordelia I can think of is Cordelia Fine

HorraceTheOtter · 15/02/2015 11:54

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Nospringflower · 15/02/2015 11:51

Never heard of Buffy so no, wouldn't make me think of anything.

craazyperson · 15/02/2015 11:46

I thought planet of the apes then realised that was cornelia. I wouldn't have known the buffy connection if I hadn't read this thread i also think it's a lovely name, if I was you I wouldn't let it put me off.

RitaOrange · 15/02/2015 11:42

Haha I read that were going to call your DD Buffy Grin
Buffy is a dogs name

PastPerfect · 15/02/2015 11:40

It's my DDs middle name - I had no idea that there was a Buffy link

Koalafications · 15/02/2015 11:40

VixxFace it's on Netflix Smile Angel isn't, though Sad

iklboo · 15/02/2015 11:38

If you hadn't put Buffy in the title I wouldn't have made the connection immediately. I would have thought Shakespeare first.

AnythingNotEverything · 15/02/2015 11:38

Wouldn't spot the connection at all. Lovely name.

VixxFace · 15/02/2015 11:37

Is Buffy still showing then? It was popular when I was in school.

museumum · 15/02/2015 11:36

People over 30 might think of buffy but very few younger and none of your daughters peer group.
Cordelia was quite cool in angel anyway.

Alisvolatpropiis · 15/02/2015 11:36

I was a Buffy fan, but i wouldn't immediately think of it when meeting a baby Cordelia. Maybe a teenage one because her parents may well have been taken with the name when watching the show.

It is a lovely name.

Koalafications · 15/02/2015 11:34

She's so much better in Angel, not just a bit...

I would think of Buffy and King Lear.

It's a beautiful name. Go with it.

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 15/02/2015 11:34

Yeah, I'd probably think buffy but it doesn't matter. Pretty much any name will have either a famous person, or a character or someone from history that will have that name and people will have that little brain flash when you hear something that you can relate to something else you know - iyswim.

Your only other option is to make one up Grin

Leeds2 · 15/02/2015 11:32

I wouldn't know the connection to Buffy.

There is a Cordelia at DD's school known as Cords. Sometimes Cordy.

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VikingLady · 15/02/2015 11:31

2/3 wouldn't so far....

She's a particularly shallow, whiny, self absorbed cheerleader bully in Buffy. Although she gets a bit better in Angel Smile

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thatstoast · 15/02/2015 11:30

Yes, I would think of Buffy but also Shakespeare. Cordelia is a favourite girls name of mine. I had a boy and gave him a name of a character in buffy.