Ophelia?

[LottaBean]

Not sure what we are having yet but I have a feeling its another girl. Our first daughter is called Honor Florence LastName
At the moment potential middle names for baby2 are Lavender or Grace
Opinions on Ophelia?
Ophelia Lavender - bit too much of a mouthful
Ophelia Grace - I do love this but I feel like Grace gets used a lot for a middle name
Does it sound right with Honor? I really love her name and want to find a name I love just as much for this baby!

I like it! A strong and elegant name. Really don't like lavender for a middle name but Ophelia Grace is beautiful....

I love it, absolutely beautiful. Would've been my name choice if I had a girl and didn't have an awful surname haha

Honor and Ophelia are a lovely combination

For middle names Lavender is a bit of a mouthful and Grace very overused - Jane, Pearl, Frances, Katharine, Beatrice might all work well.

Ophelia Marguerite
Ophelia Juliet
Ophelia Iris

I love Ophelia

Ophelia is gorgeous - as long as your surname doesn't rhyme with anything rude. I don't think it works very well with your middle name choices though - Lavender is too much and Grace sounds okay but is a bit boring. How about something short/simple but less commonplace with it - Faye, Eve, Gwen, Nell, Blythe, Tess, Maeve, Hope etc?

Sorry but just reminds me of the word paedophilia

Love Ophelia, worked with one and her second name is Anais, which means Grace. How about
Ophelia Ivy
Ophelia Juliet

As much as I like the name, the association just makes me think of the character's awful fate in Hamlet. And the famous painting depicting it.

I find it overly frou-frou whereas Honor has a nice simplicity to it.

It's too 'tragic heroine' for me, I'm afraid. It does sound good with Grace, though.

I'm not sure it 'goes' with Honor, it's very frilly in comparison.

Honor and Ophelia go really well together. Neither of them are to my taste particularly, but they do make a nice pair.

I consider Honor quite a simple name, and Florence an elegant middle name. Whereas Ophelia is a more elegant first name, so I think it needs a simpler middle name to balance it out. Lavender is too much, but Grace is perfect.

Side note: I vaguely remember seeing a thread quite a while ago asking for opinions on the name Honor Florence. Could it have been you?

Ophelia Frances
Ophelia Winter

I love it.

But I do think ‘give us Ophelia tits’

Grace is beautiful, really don't like the other 2 sorry, I also think 'a feel of your...'

@amallierory

Honor and Ophelia go really well together. Neither of them are to my taste particularly, but they do make a nice pair.

I consider Honor quite a simple name, and Florence an elegant middle name. Whereas Ophelia is a more elegant first name, so I think it needs a simpler middle name to balance it out. Lavender is too much, but Grace is perfect.

Side note: I vaguely remember seeing a thread quite a while ago asking for opinions on the name Honor Florence. Could it have been you?

It most likely was me!

I’m not a fan of Ophelia, sorry. Too long and fussy for me.

It reminds me always of ‘Hamlet’. She had such a tragic life I wouldn’t use it.

Ophelia Hope sounds lovely

Love Ophelia Iris.

Grace is just a bland filler name.

I love Honor. It's classy and elegant. Orphelia - too many for me. It's like Arlo for a boy. A bit too try hard, IMHO. Juliet has the same vibe as Honor for me. I've always loved Grace and only know of 1 !

Iris has a similar vibe to Honor.

Ophelia is 'Feel yer' to me, and is too fussy, too hamlety and too similar to Amelia, Aurelia etc. Delia is nicer

It's beautiful. Of all the characters in Hamlet she is the only one who is pure and uncorrupted. Her brother calls her 'Rose of May' when she dies - why don't you call your dd Ophelia May, or Ophelia Rose? truly Shakespearian (and exceptionally pretty).

I’m sorry but whatever else Ophelia is- and in isolation I can see that it’s quite a pretty name- it’s literally only associated with one story and in that story Ophelia drowns!!!