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This is a beautiful, vintage name! I know it's old-fashioned, but I can picture it on a baby nowadays. It has a sweet nature to it, but a child can grow with it. I will add, in Spanish this would be pronounced corr-DEH-lya (rolling the R). I'm Hispanic myself and this is how I was inclined to pronounce it upon first reading it; I hadn't encountered the other pronunciation. I don't roll the R myself, but I do say DEH-lya. To be clear, I think the English way is just as pretty, DEH-lya is my personal preference.
This is my grandma's first name, although she goes by her middle name of Chlorene, she has always pronounced it Kor-dill-ya.
In both 'Anne of Green Gables' adaptations that I've seen as well as all of both 'Buffy' and 'Angel', this name is consistently pronounced as 'kor-DEEL-ee-ə'. First syllable rhyming with 'or'/'oar', second sounding exactly like 'deal'. I've never heard either of the listed pronunciations.
Cordelia´s pet forms are Cora, Corri, Delia.
Pronounced as "Kawr-day-lia".
Normally pronounced kor-DEEL-ee-a, rather than kor-DELL-ee-a.

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