partner hates my favourite name

No, you can't convince him.

You wouldn't want to be convinced of a name you hate, would you?

Treat your OH with more respect than that.

My husband has hated three of our five children's names during pregnancy. I just carried on with my campaigning and chipping away at his resistance. I genuinely loved them and his refusal was based on dislike but he wasn't bringing any names to the table himself. On two of them I ended up having mini meltdowns about the lack of name and he conceded. The last one was a change of mind in the operating theatre 30 minutes after baby was born and I was in such a state he really couldn't refuse lol He now lives them and annoyingly even tells people he chose them!

Unfortunately I think if you want to choose the name alone you need to go down the route of having a baby alone (eg: sperm donor).

If you want to have a baby as part of a partnership with DP then you need to choose the name as a partnership as well and find something you both love. Perhaps he would be willing to compromise and have Calillope as a middle name?

I quite like it but if he doesn't you probably have to compromise I'm afraid. What about Cassia or Callin? I sympathise if I had had my way my children would have been named differently :)

No. Of course you can't convince him. The sound of words (names) is a very personal thing....it sounds ugly to me and probably to him too. That's not changeable.

It's also going to cause multiple issues with people being unable to read it...all her life and saying "What?" when she says it.

Focus your attention on finding another name which you both love.