Given name
Ophelie
“help”·“one who offers help to others”
Ophelie 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
Ophelie is a variant of Ophelia. Interpretations include “help” (Greek) and “one who offers help to others” (Greek). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ophelie is a variant of Ophelia. An origin associated with Ophelia is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ophelie 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.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Ophelie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2001.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ophelie’s family of names
Ophelie has a related form in Ophelia.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
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.
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