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Ophelia?

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Bluebunnie · 03/08/2025 21:15

Hey, what are your opinions on Ophelia?

We are thinking Ophelia with a middle name like Alice (as my mothers name is Allison)

Thoughts?

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RosesAndHellebores · 03/08/2025 21:34

Daphne is a similar genre

ChimbaWimba · 03/08/2025 21:33

BatchCookBabe · 03/08/2025 21:29

😆 Never heard that one before!

@Bluebunnie No to Ophelia. Reminds me of the woman who took her own life in Hamlet, and the hooker from Trading Places! 😬(Sorry.)

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That move will be over half a century old before any of her friends (don't) watch it.

OneNeatBlueOrca · 03/08/2025 21:33

Can I feel ya ophelia

ChimbaWimba · 03/08/2025 21:32

It's a very pretty name, personally the Hamlet connection wouldn't bother me. It depends on your surname though. Definitely not if it's Johnson... Or Titz!

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Gallivant · 03/08/2025 21:25

Ah yes, the famous Russian ballerina - Ophelia Titz.

Haven't recalled that joke since about 1973.

😆 Never heard that one before!

@Bluebunnie No to Ophelia. Reminds me of the woman who took her own life in Hamlet, and the hooker from Trading Places! 😬(Sorry.)

RosesAndHellebores · 03/08/2025 21:29

It's a beautiful name.but the connections are too tragic - Hamlet and Rossetti's wife depicted as Ophelia - John Everett-Millais - beautiful painting.

Sadly dd had a friend at uni called Ophelia - she died so that seals it for me.

Imogen Alice?

Laiste · 03/08/2025 21:29

Beautiful 😊

MeetTheGrahams · 03/08/2025 21:26

Its becoming popular, DD has it on her list

Haveiwon · 03/08/2025 21:26

Bluebunnie · 03/08/2025 21:19

How come? I’m not familiar with this

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The very very famous Ophelia dies in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet from drowning…

Gallivant · 03/08/2025 21:26

Bluebunnie · 03/08/2025 21:19

How come? I’m not familiar with this

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Hamlet.

Gallivant · 03/08/2025 21:25

Ah yes, the famous Russian ballerina - Ophelia Titz.

Haven't recalled that joke since about 1973.

butwhatthen · 03/08/2025 21:22

Ophelia Alice is beautiful.
dd1 is Ophelia and she loves it and gets so many compliments, she gets nicknames Fia.
some of the boys have recently started a chant ‘Ophelia, let me feel ya’ but it doesn’t bother her and you could find something similar for every name

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Bluebunnie · 03/08/2025 21:19

Lemniscate8 · 03/08/2025 21:17

I just think "drowned"

How come? I’m not familiar with this

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SquirrelBlue · 03/08/2025 21:18

Ophelia Alice runs together nicely but yes I do think of the Hamlet character. Saying that I've met 2 Ophelia's in the last year both aged under 2 so it's obviously becoming more popular.

Lemniscate8 · 03/08/2025 21:17

I just think "drowned"