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I fell for this name too when I first read it in Anne of Green Gables. It is a perfecly elegant name :). Although you do have a point that it can sound cold and strict but nonetheless I still like the name.

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Excerpt from Anne of Green Gables for everyone's reading pleasure.

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"Will you please call me Cordelia?" she said eagerly.

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"Call you Cordelia? Is that your name?"

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"No-o-o, it's not exactly my name, but I would love to be called Cordelia. It's such a perfectly elegant name."

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"I don't know what on earth you mean. If Cordelia isn't your name, what is?"

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"Anne Shirley," reluctantly faltered forth the owner of that name, "but, oh, please do call me Cordelia. It can't matter much to you what you call me if I'm only going to be here a little while, can it? And Anne is such an unromantic name."

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"Unromantic fiddlesticks!" said the unsympathetic Marilla. "Anne is a real good plain sensible name. You've no need to be ashamed of it."

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"Oh, I'm not ashamed of it," explained Anne, "only I like Cordelia better. I've always imagined that my name was Cordelia--at least, I always have of late years. When I was young I used to imagine it was Geraldine, but I like Cordelia better now. But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E."

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