Ophelia or Effie

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Ophelia nn Effie or just Effie? I normally prefer a full version on a birth certificate but likewise if we use Effie 90% of the time is there much point having Ophelia on the birth certificate?

PS I know Ophelia is a love hate name on here (and I’ve been prewarned about the ‘a feel of your bum’ etc) but i love it.

So...

Ophelia Florence S
Or
Effie Florence S

The only certain way to find an unusual name these days is to call your child something utterly prosaic like Jane or Dave.

I'm not even in an English speaking country and I know of two Ophelias.

Love I fear names like Sharon and Linda are only a little way off being resurrected.

After all...the generation who will name their children names like their Grandmas had are not that far from having babies...I'm in my 40s and my peers all have a penchant for names like our Grannies had...like "May" and Isabel and so on.

In under ten years, there'll be a load of Joannes or something!

We announced my daughter as Evelyn ‘Effie’ when she was born. She is exclusively known as Effie but wanted a more formal BC name, plus Evelyn has strong family links. Also know of an Ophelia known as Effie through a friend.

Ophelia as I would be worried about "F-ing hell" nicknames.

Traditionally Effie is short for Euphemia.

I absolutely love the name Ophelia, it gets my vote

Yes @Musmerian but it can also be used for other names too.

Would have gone with Ophelia too if we had a girl but I would have nicknamed Fifi

Ophelia is gorgeous. Don't like Effie.

I have a Harriet and I partly chose her name because I love the nn Hattie. I've never called her Hattie in her life and it feels very wrong and not her at all! She has other nicknames loosely associated with Harriet but she is certainly NOT a Hattie!

In my opinion I wouldn't choose a name based on the nickname. Choose a name you like and let the nicknames naturally come!

Ophelia gives her the option to use the full name of the nickname. Plus I think it’s lovely!

Ophelia I love that name reminds me of the girl from 'pans labyrinth'. one of my favourite films.

The full name is very fff-fff-fff sounding.

What about Aoife if you like the sound but want a 'proper' name?

I know a couple of Ophelia's, I've heard of it being shortened to Ophie before.

@Sagradafamiliar I’m not really a fan of names that sound completely different to their spelling. I feel like I’d be condemning her to a lifetime of spelling her name out!

Ophelia looks lovely but is awful because as you say she'll get teased with 'a feel 'o' your.....' Fee is a nicer nickname. Effie sounds like effing.

I thought Aoife was really popular! Effie is nothing like Ophelia but then again Effy in Skins was short for Elizabeth.
Just go for the name you like.

Aoife sounds exactly like its spelling - although I suppose living in Ireland helps me with that! What about Ofelia, avoid the ph issue?
I prefer Ophelia to Euphemia.

I always thought Aoife was pronounced ee-fer? Have I been getting this wrong all these years? 🙈

If you spelt it Ephie it would have more of a link to Ophelia.

As a nn I mean not instead of Ophelia.

Aoife is more like eef-a, but sort of breathy a. No r sound at th end. Our dog minder is called Aoife, she's lovely.

Effie is awful. The only Effies I know are old Scottish ladies, short for the dreadful Euphemia.

Ophelia is a lovely name - don't give her a nickname which seems to be a prerequisite of baby names on MN and nowhere else

Take the high road, a Scottish soap opera in the seventies, had a lady called effie. I remember a big kerfuffle whe she was revealed as being euphemia.
We had a nickname in mind for one of our kids, but never used it. Each of our babies was lovingly named, each time mil advised us of what people would call them. None of the predictions came true.

Ophelia.

I have an Effy, but short for Elizabeth. It wasn’t a nickname we chose, but she’s 18 and has called herself that for about 4 years. Before that she was Bizzie (again, not chosen by us)

I know 3 Ophelia and they’re all known as Fifi.