Cordelia

For other uses, see Cordelia (disambiguation).

Cordelia

William Frederick Yeames, Cordelia , 1888
Gender	Feminine
Language(s)	English
Origin
Word/name	uncertain; possibly related to the word cordial (literally "heartfelt, from the heart")
Meaning	allegedly "heart" or "daughter of the sea(-god)", Jewel of the Sea (Welsh)
Other names
Nickname(s)	Delia, Dilly, Rory, Cordy, Lia, Danny
Related names	Cordeilla, Cordélia, Cordell, Cordilla, Cordoylla, Cordula, Creurdilad

Cordelia is a feminine given name. It was borne by the tragic heroine of Shakespeare's King Lear (1606), a character based on the legendary queen Cordelia. ^[1] The name is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated with Latin cor (genitive cordis ) "heart", and has also been linked with the Welsh name Creiddylad, allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the French coeur de lion "heart of a lion".^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable people with the name

• Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir
• Cordelia Agbebaku (1961–2017), Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University
• Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer
• Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976), British actress
• Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-manager
• Cordelia Camp, American educator
• Cordelia Candelaria (born 1943), American educator and writer
• Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer
• Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (1919–1996), American combat nurse
• Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943), American pioneer and healer
• Cordelia Edvardson (1929–2012), German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor
• Cordelia Fine (born 1975), British academic psychologist and writer
• Cordelia Agnes Greene (1831–1905), physician, philanthropist and suffragist from Upstate New York
• Cordelia Griffith (born 1995), English cricketer
• Cordelia Gundolf (1917–2008), German academic and educator
• Cordelia Harvey (1824–1895), First Lady of Wisconsin Governor Louis Harvey, known for founding Civil War Orphans' homes and advocating for war field hospital conditions
• Cordelia Hawkins, eponym of the U.S. town of Cordele, Georgia
• Cordelia Hood (1913–2011), American counter-intelligence agent
• Cordelia Howard (1848–1941), American child actress
• Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme (1912–2007), British educator and justice of the peace
• Cordelia Knott (1890–1974), wife of Walter Knott and founder of Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott's Berry Farm
• Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American heiress and philanthropist
• Cordelia Mendoza, American antiquarian and appraiser
• Cordelia Oliver (1923–2009), Scottish journalist, painter and art critic
• Cordelia Schmid (born 1967), German computer vision researcher
• Cordelia Stanwood (1865–1958), American ornithologist, wildlife photographer, artisan and writer
• Cordelia Strube (born 1960), Canadian playwright and novelist
• Cordelia Urueta (1908–1995), Mexican artist
• Cordelia Wege (born 1976), German actress
• Cordelia Wilson (1873–1953), American painter of New Mexico and American Southwest landscapes

Fictional characters

• A supposed anglicization of Creiddylad, the name of a character in Welsh mythology

• Cordelia (King Lear), a central character in William Shakespeare's tragic play King Lear
• Cordelia, the character who is the object of seduction in Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Diary (a long section in his book Either/Or)
• Cordelia, the main character of the eponymous Dutch adult comic strip by Belgian cartoonist "ILAH" (Inge Heremans)
• Cordelia, character in James Lapine and William Finn's 1990 off-Broadway musical Falsettoland and later its two Broadway revivals, renamed Falsettos
• Cordelia Frost, character in MARVEL's "Emma Frost" comics, Emma's sister
• Cordelia, wife of Dan Mulligan in a series of musicals written and produced by Edward Harrigan

Anime

• Cordelia Capulet, Japanese anime character in "Romeo x Juliet"
• Cordelia Gallo, Japanese anime character in "Gosick"
• Cordelia Glauca, Japanese anime character in Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
• Cordelia, Japanese anime character in Diabolik Lovers

Films and television shows

• Cordelia, the titular character in the silent film Cordelia the Magnificent
• Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap opera The Young and The Restless
• Cordelia Chase, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Cordelia Cupp, in the mystery television series The Residence
• Cordelia Foxx, character in American Horror Story: Coven
• Cordelia "Cody" Latimer, character in the New Zealand comedy-drama series Go Girls .
• Cordelia Winthrop Scott, from the 2011 film Monte Carlo , played by Selena Gomez
• Cordelia Thornberry, in The Wild Thornberrys

Literature

• In Kierkegaard's Either/Or in the section of Diary of a Seducer
• In Anne of Green Gables , Anne requests that she be called Cordelia rather than Anne
• Cordelia Blake, title character of the Winston Graham novel Cordelia (1949)
• Cordelia Flakk, in Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book
• Lady Cordelia Flyte, in Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
• Cordelia Geard, in John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1932)
• Cordelia Gray, in two books by P.D. James
• Cordelia Kenn, in Aidan Chambers' novel This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (2005)
• Cordelia Ransom, in the Honorverse novels by David Weber
• The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman
• Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Cordelia Carstairs, protagonist of The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

Video games

• Cordelia, a playable character in Fire Emblem Awakening
• Cordelia, final boss in Panel de Pon
• Cordelia, youngest daughter of King Regna, in Triangle Strategy

References

1. Uckelman, Sara L. (21 January 2007). "Concerning the Name Cordelia". MedievalScotland.org. Retrieved 5 January 2013.