To call my baby calliope?

[heathergray]

Pronounced cal-y-oh-pee

Is it awful?

I'd assume it was pronounced callie-ope (like hope without the h)

Double LL is misleading, should only have one. Otherwise it's lovely. Big Greys fan though.

Oyster, it's just another ridiculous 'trying too hard to be trendy" name. It will be continually spelled incorrectly by people throughout her life too. Why do people lumber their children with these frankly ridiculous names.

I don't mind it. Wouldn't be one I'd choose, but it's nice enough. It does have the strong association with these little guys for me though, as we have swarms of them around our feeders in the summertime.

It reminds me of Blinded By The Light' - the calliope crashed to the ground.

DP's family call him Cally, it was his childhood nickname, and I know another male Cally so I think if it as a man's name.

Absolutely love it

I love it! I'm a GA fan though.

Love love love the name!

Am a greys fan though

It sounds like an object rather than a name, sorry.

Double LL is misleading, should only have one

No, it really shouldn't. It is most definitely a double L in Calliope.

I really like it but my first thought was cantelope haha sorry

I know a lovely little Calliope, but she's always known as Callie.

For people who say it's awful, sounds like an object or try hard trendy:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope

I only know it from Grey's Anatomy. I like the character but couldn't immediately recall the pronunciation. Cali is nice for every day.

Horrible name

That link doesn't make it any less awful.

I like Callie but although thought Calliope was pronounced Cally-ope... so people might not know how to say it if they're as dumb as I am but I like the actual pronunciation!

It's grown on my after 12 seasons of Greys anatomy back to back but I did think it was weird to begin with.

I prefer Cassiopeia though. YY to PP re: Greek names!

honest answer, it sounds like an illness to me. sorry.

maybe because i've just written an OP about talipes !

I like Calliope.

DD is known as Callie or Cal (her first name isn't Calliope though, it's a Welsh name), we get lots of compliments on it.

I'd say it depends on the last name.

Calliope Brown (nope)
Calliope Wentworth-Smythe (yep)
Calliope Ledbetter (nope)
Calliope van der Husen (yep)

The meaning is nice, but it looks too much like "caliper" IMO.

If DS had been a girl I was going for Calliope nn Poppy
I like your pronunciation but Greek friends advised me it should be said cally o pay which I was less keen on.