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Kalliope

#1,787 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful voice

Kalliope has been given to 1,323 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #1,787 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Kalliope, 2025

1 in 29,300

Kalliope over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalliope: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful voice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalliope means

Kalliope means “beautiful voice”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,323 girls were recorded with the name Kalliope between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,787 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,163 in 2020 to #1,787 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,728 in 2015 to #1,787 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kalliope?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,300
113 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,787
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,337 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalliope 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 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalliope. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalliopes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalliope was born before 2019 — so the typical Kalliope is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,304
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (578).

Is Kalliope 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
+532
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+376
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+941
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.74×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (113)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,787
2025

Spellings of Kalliope

Kalliope is not the most common spelling — Kallie is, with 63.1% against Kalliope's 6.6%.

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 Kalliope is used

Across 2016–2025, Kalliope was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 25,884 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 12,500
  2. 2Illinois1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 20,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 25,000
  6. 6New York1 in 25,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

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.

Kalliope around the world

Where Kalliope 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
    2019–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2018
    #6,838
    in 2018
  • Canada
    2012–2023
    #1,916
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1982–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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.

Kalliope by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,787
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 376
Best rank ever
#1,787
2025
Peak year
2025
113 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,323
Count in 2025
113

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Sibling names for Kalliope

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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