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Calliope

#451 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful + voice

Calliope has been given to 6,098 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #451 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 682 recorded.

Babies named Calliope, 2025

1 in 4,860

Calliope over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Calliope: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful + voice

Ancient Greek and English

What Calliope means

Calliope means “beautiful + voice”, associated with κᾰλλῐ- and ὄψ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Calliope, from Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē), from κᾰλλῐ- (kăllĭ-, “beautiful”) + ὄψ (óps, “voice”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Calliope (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Calliope is used in English, Cebuano and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek and English.

Calliope comes through Latin Calliope and Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Calliope is pronounced /kəˈlaɪ.ə.pi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,098 girls were recorded with the name Calliope between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 682 in 2025; its best national rank was #451 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #692 in 2020 to #451 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,149 in 2015 to #451 in 2025.

How common is Calliope?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,860
682 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,360
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#451
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,371 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calliope sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,371 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calliope. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calliopes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calliope was born before 2020 — so the typical Calliope is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,043
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (3,336).

Is Calliope rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+48
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+241
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+698
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (682)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#451
2025

Spellings of Calliope

Calliope is not the most common spelling — Callie is, with 90.4% against Calliope's 7.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Calliope is used

Across 2016–2025, Calliope was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,064 girls, against 1 in 3,084 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 16,667).

694 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,064
  2. 2Alaska1 in 1,205
  3. 3Oregon1 in 1,250
  4. 4Idaho1 in 1,316
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 1,515
  6. 6Washington1 in 1,667
  7. 7Maine1 in 1,786
  8. 8Indiana1 in 1,818

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Calliope is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 45% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Calliope around the world

Where Calliope ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #661
    in 2025
  • France
    1930–2025
    #1,944
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #1,050
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Calliope

People whose public names include Calliope, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Calliope by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#451
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 241
Best rank ever
#451
2025
Peak year
2025
682 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,098
Count in 2025
682

Names similar to Calliope

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Calliope

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Calliope, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Calliope

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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