🔥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.

Calliope Rank in US Top 1000

# 492 in the US

Calliope Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 127 on Nameberry

Calliope Popularity

• 492 US 2023
• 127 Nameberry 2024
• 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

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