To call my baby calliope?

[heathergray]

Pronounced cal-y-oh-pee

Is it awful?

I'm hankering after a Callipo ice lolly now. Talk of them over on Baby Names on the 'Calypso' thread also! I think Calypso is better, personally.

Also, I was born in England but guess what, I learnt to spell my own name

Gosh, how clever of you, Jane. You sound rather angry, I must say

Wtf is with some of these posters?
Text talk abbreviations? Hmm
Posters are simply pointing out the potential pitfalls, it's the done thing on these name threads, and very useful it has proved too.

OP asked for others' opinions Jane. They gave them

Reuset, a poster gave that example about the kid spelling her name.

Yes I'm angry, it just seems like a lot of these criticisms are about it being a foreign name. It makes me wonder if people are taking the piss out of my name or just generally being racist about me and I don't know.

Then again, MN certainly feels more racist than real life, I guess because it's an anonymous board.

I like it. Never seen the TV programme but I wouldn't have any difficulty pronouncing it. There are lots of more modern names that I find more difficult.

Oh no. Never seen Gray's Anatomy so not getting the reference. I know it as one of the Muses.

If I were going for a Greek myth name I'd go for Phaedra, Callisto , Artemis, Athene, Ariadne, Thalia, Antigone or Demeter.

What??? I have seen nothing remotely racist about this thread! A few posters thought that it may be a difficult name for some people to pronounce and spell, that's all.

Ok fair enough, but it's not worth getting cross about, honestly. Most names in the top 100 have foreign origins, more familiar, granted. I have a 'foreign' name myself. I don't think that's why it's receiving criticism. Many people, as I mentioned earlier, won't know it is Greek, won't know Greek 'rules' on how to pronounce, so will just see the difficulties.

Ask about the similar Persephone on Baby Names and that's a great favourite over there.

Re pronunciation, I have a Persephone and after three years I can count the number of people who have mispronounced it on the fingers of one hand, which vaguely surprises me

Possibly the Persephone/ Hades myth is better known than 1 out of the 9 Muses ?

Persephone isn't very similar to Calliope actually Except that it's greek and follows similar pronunication pattern. There's a thread about Calypso, though, not a favourite of mine, but I bet that's doing better than Calliope because of Shakespeare and Camomile lawn!

I much prefer Calypso or Callisto.

Possibly the Persephone/ Hades myth is better known than 1 out of the 9 Muses ?
there was also the Persephone (Lady Persie) in the remake of Upstairs Downstairs. The name began to increase in popularity, in the stats, shortly after the series aired. Coincidence perhaps.

It's your baby OP so your choice

21 years ago my DH and I couldn't decide between Calandra or Calliope so we went for the shortened form and chose Cally. There weren't any others in her schools and it's unusual without being difficult to spell or pronounce

Is there a formula for working out how may posts it takes for someone to say racist/phobic?

It's pronounced Cal-eye-oh-pea

Always reminds me of a Tropical Calippo.

I think you are opening the door to your kid being teased... YABU

As someone uncultured unaware of Greek muses and Grey's Anatomy, I would have pronounced that Cal-ee-ope (as in nope).
I wouldn't use it, but good learning opportunity for me

I am really confused by the melon references too. It sounds as much like cantaloupe as melon sounds like lemon - and presumably people have no problem with that!!

As i said upthread, it makes me think of eerie roundabouts turning by themselves in horror movie fairgrounds, so I wouldn't choose it, but I love Callie.

It's a bit of a mouthful
Will be shorted to Cally I imagine

As i said upthread, it makes me think of eerie roundabouts turning by themselves in horror movie fairgrounds

What is the reference there?

I don't like it. The sound is too close to calliper.

Those old steam fairground organs are called calliopes, Lass

If you are going to give your child an unusual name you have to really love it because you will have to defend it a lot - esp in the early days (after which people get used to it).

I speak as one whose been there. We dont regret our choice of name and ds is perfectly happy with it but in the early days we did get the "that's asking for him to be bullied, what's wrong with George or Ben?" brigade.

I didn't know that. I wonder why ? The only muse involving music is Terpsichore - for dance.