I recently asked how high in popularity you thought [name]Phoebe[/name] might climb, now I ask the same about [name]Cordelia[/name] - how much of a chart climber do you think she will become, realistically.
Hmm, well where I live she isn’t even in the charts…
[name]Nor[/name] is she in the top 1000 in the USA, and in the UK she is just outside the top 1000. (She has dropped dramatically in the UK)
I don’t think she shares any popular sounds, but she could been seen as a classic alternative to names like [name]Olivia[/name] and [name]Sophia[/name]. I could see her in the top 1000, from #500 to #1000 but I don’t see her going there very fast.
But then again we don’t have [name]Cordelia[/name] from [name]Buffy[/name] anymore which I think helped spread her familarity in the early 2000s.
I do not think this one will get popular. if at all it makes it into the top 1000, I would guess it would not get below 500. At least I don’t think.
I definitely think [name]Cordelia[/name] has great potential, especially with names like [name]Cora[/name] and [name]Nora[/name] rising and [name]Olivia[/name] and [name]Sophia[/name] being so popular. I think it has great potential to explode in popularity, but that really relies on it being discovered. I think if a celebrity or two finds it and uses it then it could rise very high indeed. Time will tell, I suppose. 
I like [name]Cordelia[/name], but I think it’s one of those names that will never be popular.
I think [name]Cordelia[/name] might become a little more popular among people who are regulars on Nameberry because it does seem to be pretty well liked on here. I think overall it probably will never hit top 100. It is a little quirky and has its own unique appeal that most people won’t care for.
There are names on Nameberry that pop up so often in the forums, lists and blogs that they feel like they must be popular, but beyond nameberry they aren’t. I think [name]Cordelia[/name] falls into this category.
Because [name]Cordelia[/name] is outside the top 1000, I think it’s unlikely it will become popular enough to be an annoyance. [name]Even[/name] if it started a meteoric rise, by the time it became a truly popular name, your daughter would be old enough that it wouldn’t really effect her, at least not until sometime later in adulthood. I do have a friend that’s considering [name]Cordelia[/name] and [name]Charisma[/name] but that show has been off the air for awhile so it’s unlikely to have much after-effects now.
I think [name]Cordelia[/name] has one very good thing going for her. The ‘ia’ ending that she shares with [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Olivia[/name], [name]Sophia[/name], [name]Aria[/name], [name]Lia[/name], [name]Mia[/name] and [name]Cecilia[/name].
I guess time will tell. I don’t see it cracking the top 100, that’s for sure, but I think I can see it cropping up on the lower end of the top 1000.
I think [name]Cordelia[/name] has the potential to be another [name]Penelope[/name], rising into mainstream top 250 use, but it would need another push from pop culture- whether a character, a public figure, or a few celebrity children- to get it there.
It slowly gained use throughout the 2000s, but seems to be holding steady at around 175 births for the last 5 years or so. I think part of the issue is that there is competition from other [name]Cor[/name]- names like [name]Coraline[/name], [name]Coralie[/name], [name]Corinna[/name], and [name]Cora[/name] itself ([name]Penelope[/name] is more on its own- [name]Calliope[/name] isn’t all that similar, and it’s closest!). In this case, [name]Cordelia[/name]'s got the [name]Shakespeare[/name], [name]Anne[/name] of [name]Green[/name] Gables, and [name]Buffy[/name] (and the legion of middleschoolers who were obsessed with that show 15 years ago, which is a cohort only just starting to have babies) references going for her, which is a strong argument for chart-climbing; on the other hand, [name]Coraline[/name] has a much more sleek and stylish sound (and [name]Neil[/name] Gaiman) going for her; [name]Cora[/name] has long use, simplicity and Downton [name]Abbey[/name].
I suspect that [name]Cora[/name] will make it into the top 100 in the next 5 years; [name]Coraline[/name] will enter the top 1000 next year; and either [name]Coralie[/name] or [name]Cordelia[/name] will follow. Between [name]Coraline[/name], [name]Cordelia[/name], and [name]Coralie[/name] I expect one will make its way into the top 500, but which of the three is anyone’s guess.
Edited to add: Cordelia has long been one of my sister’s favourite names (my name is Anne, so Cordelia would be ‘for me’- when she told me this a couple of years ago, i was really touched…anyhow, she never watched Buffy, but seeing all of the interest in Cordelia here has made me wonder how zeitgeist-y this name might be in a slightly unexpected way).
I think the show would have spawned more Cordelias if she was a more likeable character. She of course wasn’t all bad and rounded out as a character over the years, but she had a bitchy popular girl thing going on so while people might have heard the name from the show and want to use it, I see a lot less really identifying with her as much as say, [name]Willow[/name].
I don’t think [name]Cordelia[/name] will ever hit lofty heights.
I could perhaps, see it getting into the 300s, maybe the 250s in the future, but never in the Top 100.
That is what I was thinking. It does have the came first 3 letters as [name]Cora[/name] and is long and end with an A like [name]Isabella[/name], and has a similar rhythym to [name]Amelia[/name]. So I could see it rising up the charts just as these names did pretty much out of the middle of nowhere.
I do not think it will hit the top 10 or even the top 100 like the names I mentioned above, nor do I think it will turn into a [name]Sophia[/name] or what not…however, I do expect to see it more over the next 10 or so years since it fits current girls name trends.