To call my baby calliope?

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Pronounced cal-y-oh-pee

Is it awful?

Why do you like the name Calliope for your baby, OP? Have you seen the TV programme (which I've never heard of, personally), like some of the other posters, or is it for other reasons?

Isn't that a type of melon?

Is it pronounced ste-an-lay.

LOL Donald.

Sorry ..and of course you should name your baby as you wish and follow through on your own convictions.

Yeah everyone should just call their baby any name they wish, no matter how daft, unpronounceable, or difficult to spell it is; I mean, it's not like the child has got to live with it for life is it?!

And in the very unlikely event that the OP is being serious, 'Calliope' sounds like 'canteloupe!'

Calliope is a lovely name with potential for shorter versions, a lovely 'meaning' and not overly used so offering some individuality. My Greek name can be a pain but is not frequently used so dead posh and that can be helpful. Parents of yore would say 'it builds character'.
However, it seems there is a more important question. How many of your friends either watched Grey's Anatomy (I did not) or are sufficiently well educated to be familiar with the names of the 9 muses from Greek mythology (I am) and /or look past the historic fairground instrument?
As many threads warn, rule no.1 is DO NOT REVEAL potential baby names in advance to family since they will all complain.

Do some posters think any name they've not heard is a bad one?

and not overly used so offering some individuality.

Parents of yore would say 'it builds character'

How so?

It's up to you but my immediate thought was: it sounds like 'Callipers'. Which then for some reason made me think of 'forceps'.

I initially read it as 'calliper' so I'm not keen sorry

Big greys fab!
Love Callie but prefer Calico to Calliope.

(Just in my head see Callie from Grey's Dad calling her Calliope!)

Beautiful old Greek name. I would have thought the pronunciation easy

Go for it OP

Gorgeous. I'd use it if I was brave enough (and not living in a country where people would butcher it)

Maybe depends on the circles you move in but to me it just sounds pretentious. I think an awful lot of people would have no idea how to pronounce it. Though not convinced this is real given other recent threads.

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 - I was expecting more. It gets shortened 95% of the time (to Percy), and I would assume Calliope would get the same treatment - Cally/Loppy/Lily/Pea, depending on your level of pretentiousness .

Whenever there's a thread about a baby name I invariably think (but don't say because it's not my baby) what a God awful name the parent is suggesting but I genuinely like Calliope, I think it's pretty and so what if some people have to ask how to pronounce it. There's plenty of Irish names that are pronounced nothing like their spelling but people still choose them, Eilidh for example.

Cally is also nice.

Willyou - Some people won't instantly recognise it as a Greek name or know the 'rules' for pronouncing, rules making even names like Eurydice easy enough to pronounce.

I don't like that at all sorry OP, Ive never heard of it and immediately thought callipers like others did. It does sound like the name of an object rather than a person.

Love it. Means lover of music I think; Greek. Would have considered if I had had a girl

I personally don't like It, but it's not a ridiculous unreasonable name by any means x

But she will get called variations of "pee" by young kids lol

I like it, but I like Partenope (pronounced Part-EN-aw-pea) even more, if you're going for old Greek names. And she's got a very fabulous opera all about her too. Penelope is also lovely, and more familiar to most people than Calliope.

I like Parthenope, but I wouldn't bestow it on a child. Florence Nightingals's sister is a famous one (probably the only famous one ), though it may have been her middle name if I recall correctly, she was Frances.

Nightingale* not gal!

Five year old reaction

"Cally oh Pee"

Yes, Frances Parthenope, known as Parthenope, nick name Parthe.

In the states, there was a very colourful character called Callipe on Days of Our Lives, one of the soap operas.

I have three rules for baby names,

Are they too cutesy, as in will little Bopsie tootsie lootsie's future cvs will go in the bin

Is it an obnoxious spelling of a well known name, like James spelt with an unessary Y in the middle, so nobody knows how to really pronounce it.

Is it a name that nobody will be able to pronounce, nor will the child be able to spell.

This name ticks none of these boxes, so by my standards it's good to go!