🔥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 would not be the easiest name for a girl lacking such qualities. It debuted in the US Top 1000 in 2016. 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.

# 492 in the US

Calliope Rank in US Top 1000

# 127 on Nameberry

Calliope Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Calliope Popularity

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

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