Given name
Ophélie
“help”·“one who offers help to others”
Ophélie is a variant of Ophelia. Interpretations include “help” (Greek) and “one who offers help to others” (Greek). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ophélie is a variant of Ophelia. Interpretations include “help” (Greek) and “one who offers help to others” (Greek). These may reflect different naming traditions.
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Where it comes from
Ophélie is a variant of Ophelia. An origin associated with Ophelia is Greek.
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How it developed
From Italian Ofelia, from Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (“help”, “aid”, “succour”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Ophélie is a variant of Ophelia. The history of Ophelia gives this family its wider story. The Italian writer Jacopo Sannazzaro appears to have used Ophelia before Shakespeare adopted it for Hamlet. The proposed Greek connection with “help” belongs to that earlier literary formation; in Hamlet, Ophelia is Polonius’s daughter.
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Ophélie’s family of names
In French usage, Ophélie was borrowed from the Italian form Ofelia. Ophélie has a related form in Ophelia. In French usage, Ophélie has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ophelia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Ophélie
- Ophélie WinterFrench singer, comedian and actorborn 1974
- Ophélie BauFrench actressborn 1992
- Ophélie DavidFrench freestyle skierborn 1976
- Ophélie MeillerouxFrench association football playerborn 1984
- Ophélie MeunierFrench journalist and modelborn 1987
- Ophélie Claude-BoxbergerFrench middle-distance runnerborn 1988
- Ophélie GaillardFrench musicianborn 1974
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