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Honestly, I don't think enough people in America (if that's where you are) are literate enough in Shakespeare to even know that Cordelia is Lear's one nice daughter (or even that "King Lear" is a play by Shakespeare!). Besides, she *was* the GOOD daughter. It would only be a bleak and depressing connotation if you named her Regan or Goneril (although I can't see Goneril on any child, really). I get a much stronger snooty-and-pretentious-look-at-me-I'm-so-literate Shakespeare vibe from Ophelia than I do from Cordelia, although both are lovely.