Cordelia
2025 SSA
About Cordelia
Cordelia is exactly the kind of old-fashioned, grown-up name for girls that many parents are seeking for their daughters today. The name of King Lear's one sympathetic daughter, Cordelia has both style and substance along with its Shakespearean pedigree.
If you're torn between Cordelia and the equally lovely Cora, you can always choose Cordelia for long and then call her Cora for short—or Delia, Lia, Del, or even the extremely different Cordie.
Cordelia also appeared in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye, as detective Cordelia Gray in P.D. James's mystery novels, and was promoted by a character on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
And then there's that quote from the heroine of Anne of Green Gables: "I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."
Pronounced kor-DEEL-ya.
As of October 2026, Cordelia ranked #981 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #204 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #153.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #993 | 267 | 149.5 |
| 2015 | #949 | 286 | 160.2 |
| 2016 | #1,005 | 263 | 148.4 |
| 2017 | #1,173 | 210 | 121.6 |
| 2018 | #1,035 | 249 | 146.4 |
| 2019 | #1,083 | 231 | 137.6 |
| 2020 | #1,006 | 252 | 155.9 |
| 2021 | #1,009 | 253 | 154.2 |
| 2022 | #1,051 | 242 | 147.5 |
| 2023 | #1,117 | 219 | 136.5 |
| 2024 | #1,065 | 233 | 143.8 |
| 2025 | #981 | 258 | 160.5 |
World rankings
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Cordelia on lists
Famous Cordelias
- Cordelia
Queen consort of Aganippus of the Franks
- Cordelia Abidaoud
Phoenician princess
- Cordelia Bugeja
British actress
- Cordelia de Castellane
French designer
- Cordelia Fine
Canadian,British,Australian psychologist/writer
- Cordelia Agnes Greene
physician/suffragist
- Cordelia Hawkins
for whom the town of Cordele, Georgia was named
- Cordelia Scaife May
American philanthropist
- Cordelia Adelaide Harvey
American Civil War nurse
- (Henrietta) Cordelia Ray
American poet and educator
- Cordelia Mendoza
American antiquarian
- Cordelia Strube
Canadian playwright/novelist
- Cordelia Creigh Wilson
American painter
- Cordelia Elizabeth "Betty" Cook
heroic American WWII combat nurse
Cordelia in pop culture
- Cordelia
legendary Queen of the Britons; character in Shakespeare's "King Lear"
- Cordelia Chase
character in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- "Cordelia
" novel by Winston Graham
- Cordelia
character in"The Seducer's Diary" by Søren Kierkegaard
- Cordelia Gray
the detective in PD James' mystery novels and movies.
- Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan
character in the "Vorkosigan" novels
- Cordelia Starling
character in video game "Lollipop Chainsaw"
- Cordelia Gi Randgriz (Valis: The Fantasm Soldier
video game)
- Cordelia Banks
PhD (State of Mind , TV show character)
- Cordelia Abbott
"The Young And The Restless"
- Cordelia Flakk
character in Jasper Fforde's "Lost in a Good Book"
- Cordelia Ransom
character in the "Honorverse" novels by David Weber
- Cordelia Capulet
Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet"
- Cordelia Gallo
Japanese anime character in "Gosick"
- Cordelia Glauca
anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
- Cordelia Whinthrop
Scott, Character in the movie Monte Carlo
- Cordelia
pegasus knight from 3DS game "Fire Emblem: Awakening"
- Cordelia Foxx
character in "American Horror Story: Coven"
- Cordelia Underwood
title character in "Cordelia Underwood: Or, the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League," a novel by Van Reid, published 1999
- Cordelia
character in the anime "Diabolik Lovers"
- Cordelia
a song by The Tragically Hip
- Cordelia
a moon of Uranus
- Cordelia Carstairs
character in Cassandra Clare's "The Last Hours"
- Cordelia
character in musical "Falsettos"
- Cordelia Bellamy
character in the webcomic "Riverside Extras" by Miri Chamberlain
- Cordelia Rosewell
The Red Queen in "Habromania"
- Cordelia
a song by Flower Face
- Princess Cordelia Thebe
character in the video game "The Sims 4"
- Cordelia Cupp
Quirky Metro PD Detective in Netflix’s The Residence
- Cordelia Flyte
Character in the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Cordelia
a song by Juan Arenosa
- Cordelia
a song by Lost Horizons, Simon Raymonde, and John Grant
- Cordelia Capp
character in the video game "The Sims 2"
Variations & nicknames
- CordiWelsh