Ophelia?

[Bluebunnie]

Hey, what are your opinions on Ophelia?

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

Thoughts?

I just think "drowned"

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.

How come? I’m not familiar with this

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

Ah yes, the famous Russian ballerina - Ophelia Titz.

Haven't recalled that joke since about 1973.

Hamlet.

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

Its becoming popular, DD has it on her list

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-ophelia-n01506/story-ophelia

Beautiful 😊

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?

😆 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.)

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!

Can I feel ya ophelia

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

Daphne is a similar genre

Daphne is a similar genre

Going mad and drowning herself is what instantly comes to mind.

Love Ophelia.

Live in Stratford so decided it was too twee for mine!

I like the name. I do automatically think of the link to the painiting shown however. I think.it depends on your surname and possibly your background. If your surname is very common as popular then I'd say no. If you are very working class, as i proudly am, I think.it might sound unusual odd.

I would not follow a name ending with an unstressed vowel sound by one starting with a vowel. (It tends to become OpheliarAlice.) Alice Ophelia sounds better, I think.

Edited to remove unnecessary Hamlet explainer.

It’s a bit frilly for my taste with no obvious shortenings (but I quite like “Fia” mentioned by pp)

So what? The name Scarlett brings up visions of Gone With The Wind, and Maria brings up visions of The Sound Of Music, Sandy brings up visions of Grease, and Dorothy brings up visions of Wizard of Oz.

Those movies are between nearly 50 and nearly 90 years old. I wasn't even born when Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, and The Sound of Music were released, yet I know the movies, and the main characters in them!

Love Alice, hate Ophelia in afraid. It's has such tragic associations and also dodgy teasing potential come secondary school (feel ya). I really don't understand how it suddenly became so trendy. I'd keep looking, personally, as it doesn't flow well with Alice (the A at the end runs into the A at the start of Alice).

I don’t like it. Flowery names are pretty, but…
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