Given name
Ophilia
“help”·“one who offers help to others”
Ophilia 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
Ophilia 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
Ophilia 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 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Ophilia 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
Ophilia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 0 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #12,850 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 12,850 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1915.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ophilia’s family of names
Ophilia has a related form in Ophelia.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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