Who is Ophelia?

[Lydia55y]

Ophelia keeps making it's way back onto my list but i'm not sure if i'm brave enough to use it. What sort of name is this to you?

I typically like unusual yet old fashioned/traditional pretty names, generally starting with vowels.

She committed suicide in a pool. Sorry.

In love with Hamlet, goes mad, kills herself. In summary.

She's a tragic character in Shakespeare's Hamlets. As said above, she committed suicide.

I wouldn't necessarily relate it to the Shakespeare character but it does sound pretentious to me.

There was an Ophelia in my year at school. She got an awful lot of ‘I’ll feel ya tits/ arse’ etc at secondary.

I love the name, cos I love The Band song! But could never seriously consider it. I have to have a name I wouldn't be embarrassed to shout out in the park.

She has a trust fund.

She's studying at the Slade.

She wears vintage silk camisoles and very big boots to obscure, difficult to get to festivals.

And marries a man she meets at a mindfulness event in a yurt in South America. He inherits a castle on the west coast of Ireland and they become famous collectors and curators of art.

She donates her own inheritance to a charity supporting mindfulness retreats in war zones.

I’d only think of the Shakespeare character -drowned herself in the river after being messed around by a man.

I knew one. Very beautiful, scatty and quite mad. Not a happy girl, just like her namesake. I'd avoid it. Loads of gorgeous Shakespearean names with happier connotations: Rosalind, Beatrice, Portia, even Juliet was a very strongminded and passionate girl.

The daughter of people who want everyone to know how well educated and clever they are.

Also, she drowned.

I know an Ophelia. She's a very warm, kind woman who is a doctor. She's nice to everyone

I love the name itself but to be honest I would assume any parent who actually used it wanted to sound clever but hasn't actually read/seen Hamlet and didn't realise the character killed herself because she split up with her boyfriend (in essence).

Someone who spent her schooldays listening to dumb jokes about "Ophelia Bottom" ?

Also this rather wet (in every sense) lady.

Aurelia
Elizabeth
Isabella
Imogen

As alternatives I mean. If you think that Ophelia has too many tragic associations :-)

Creative, beautiful, slightly boho UMC.

If everyone can just get over the thing about a fictional suicide, It's got the potential to be the next Olivia, but slightly more gossamer.

Ursula gives me the same kind of vibe.

Ursula is earthy (Lawrentian) rather than watery though.

I love it.

Happy little girl, long blonde hair blowing in the hair, rainbow scarf blowing behind her

Happy and popular but in an everyoneoves kinda way, not like mean girl style

Unique style, quirky, but she's a lawyer or a doctor

A girl who went to my kids primary school

Oh gosh I'm the opposite to those who think Ophelia is delicate, elegant. I imagine a very rich, plummy voiced, very overweight middle aged woman sprawled on a Victorian chaise longue, demanding more bon bons from the timid mousey servant girl in the corner!

Rich, feckless, studying art history, vegan, slightly dim.

Or a young noblewoman of Denmark...

george has it 100% except she has missed the bit about her once doing work experience in a book publishers because her godmother Venetia Huffington-Smythe is a director and she gets really offended at being asked to photocopy a summer crime caper and make tea instead of editing something for a poetry prize.

Must admit I think tragic story first too...