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Cordelia

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tummytickler · 25/03/2010 21:01

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?

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dizzydixies · 26/03/2010 09:41

5dollar, that's one of the reasons I loved it lol

MamaLazarou · 26/03/2010 09:24

brilliant name!

Krugerellie · 26/03/2010 09:23

Love it - my DDs middle name. Saw King Lear when I was 39 weeks pregnant and she kicked all the way through the peformance - which gave me the idea.

5DollarShake · 26/03/2010 09:17

Thanks Botbot.

Botbot · 26/03/2010 09:16

5DollarShake: It's what Anne of Green Gables wanted to be called.

confusedfirsttimemum · 26/03/2010 09:13

I like it. Cordelia is lovely.

I wouldn't have Coral and Pearl together though. I think it's getting a bit 'Poppy, Daisy, Petal' names with a theme-ish.

snugglejunkie · 26/03/2010 09:12

Lovely name. Partic LadyCressida's short version 'Dilly'. V sweet - yet still got a more formal name for forms & CVs!

FYI: although birth cert says Alexander, my son is called Xander and no one has commented on the possible Buffy connection. Have to admit that's where I first heard the shortened version and liked it much more than Alex.

5DollarShake · 26/03/2010 09:11

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.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 26/03/2010 08:58

I love it. Great name.

Bondwife · 26/03/2010 08:54

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

Ondine · 26/03/2010 08:18

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.

dizzydixies · 26/03/2010 07:53

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

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mathanxiety · 26/03/2010 03:58

Makes me think of Brideshead Revisited.

jabberwocky · 26/03/2010 02:24

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

CelticStarlight · 26/03/2010 01:42

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.

ronx · 26/03/2010 00:42

Thumbs up from me!

gmtbst · 26/03/2010 00:25

I don't like it, sorry.

LadyCressida · 25/03/2010 23:58

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...

Hobnobfanatic · 25/03/2010 22:59

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

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dizzydixies · 25/03/2010 22:53

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

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tummytickler · 25/03/2010 22:44

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

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