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Kalliopi

#11,391 in 2025Girls' name

Transliteration of Καλλιόπη

Kalliopi has been given to 316 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,391 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1973, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Kalliopi, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalliopi: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Καλλιόπη

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalliopi means

Kalliopi is a transliteration of Καλλιόπη.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópi), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalliopi is used in English.

Kalliopi comes through Greek Καλλιόπη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Καλλιόπη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 316 girls were recorded with the name Kalliopi between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1973; its best national rank was #4,677 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,881 in 2020 to #11,391 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,404 in 2015 to #11,391 in 2025.

How common is Kalliopi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,391
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalliopi 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalliopi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalliopis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalliopi was born before 2006 — so the typical Kalliopi is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
316
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Kalliopi 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
−2,707
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,510
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,013
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 1973 (12)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,677
1973

Spellings of Kalliopi

Kalliopi is not the most common spelling — Calliope is, with 78.8% against Kalliopi's 4.1%.

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 Kalliopi is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalliopi was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 446,657 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Kalliopi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalliopi around the world

Where Kalliopi 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
    2009–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1955–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kalliopi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,391
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,510
Best rank ever
#4,677
1973
Peak year
1973
12 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
316
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Kalliopi

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

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Sibling names for Kalliopi

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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