🔥Calliope

ka-LYE-oh-pee or ka-lee-OH-pee (English), kah-LYO-pee (Greek)

Greek mythology name

"beautiful voice"

Calliope Origin and Meaning

The name Calliope is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful voice".

Calliope is the name of the muse of epic poetry -- and also the musical instrument on the merry-go-round. Bold and creative, it debuted in the US Top 1000 in 2016, and entered the Top 500 in 2023. Similar in rhythm and sound to Penelope with usable nicknames Callie, Clio, and Lola, it is no wonder it's on the rise.

While Americans usually pronounce this name with a long I sound and the emphasis on the second syllables, Greeks pronounce it with the emphasis on the third syllable -- ka-lee-OH-pee.

Calliope Rank in US Top 1000

# 492 in the US

Calliope Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 119 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Calliope

• 492 US 2023
• 119 Nameberry 2025
• 380 Future 2028

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Famous People Named Calliope

• Saint Calliope aka Kalliopi 3rd century Roman martyr
• Calliope "Callie" Thorne American actress
• Calliope Tsoupaki Greek pianist and composer
• Calliope "Popi" Maliotaki Greek folk,pop singer
• Calliope Maeve Day (b. 2017) daughter of Felicia Day

The name Calliope in Pop Culture

• Dr. Calliope Iphigenia "Callie" Torres character on TV's Grey's Anatomy
• Calliope/Callie/Cal Stephanides narrator of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
• Calliope character in "Scrambled Eggs at Midnight" by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
• Calliope main character in Aimee Carter's "Goddess Test"
• Calliope "Callie " character in the webcomic Homestuck
• Calliope character in the Burn Journals by Brad Runyon
• Calliope Jones character on TV's "Days of our Lives"
• Calliope Bell character in Stephanie Perkins "Lola and the Boy Next Door"
• Calliope one of the ugly stepsisters in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
• Calliope character in "Coyote Blue" by Christopher Moore
• Calliope "Callie" main character in "Oblivion" by Sasha Dawn, who suffers from graphomania, an irresistible urge to write
• Calliope character on TV's "One Tree Hill"
• The Calliope housing project in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Calliope Chadwick character in Mother,Daughter Book Club series by Heather Vogel Frederick
• Calliope Juniper a character from The Simpsons