Ophelia

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from Ancient Greek
• A moon of Uranus, named after the character in Hamlet.

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ. The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.