Kaliope
#6,675 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaliope has been given to 243 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #6,675 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Kaliope, 2025
1 in 195,000
Kaliope over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kaliope?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 195,000
- 17 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 94,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,675
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 135,172 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaliope sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaliope. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kaliopes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaliope was born before 2017 — so the typical Kaliope is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 39.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 221
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (96).
Is Kaliope 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
- −635
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,992
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +5,700
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.13×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 85.0%
- Peak was 2022 (20)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kaliope
Kaliope is not the most common spelling — Calliope is, with 44.0% against Kaliope's 1.8%.
Kaliope around the world
Where Kaliope 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.
- South Australia1961–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kaliope by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kaliope
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaliope
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.