To call my baby calliope?

[heathergray]

Pronounced cal-y-oh-pee

Is it awful?

Right, 3 hours later I still think you abvu. Give your kid a decent name. YABVU.

It's a lovely name - unusual, pretty and full of character.

And it also offers some really nice nickname possibilities too.

Go for it!

I'm still waiting for all the "yes it's fab" people, to say their DD's names.

Thought not.

Felicia Day called her baby that not helpful

Sorry, I don't like it. Poor kid would be forever telling people how to spell and pronounce her name.

It is a lovely name, but people may mispronounce it on the basis of the spelling, and her nickname might be Callie, and become what she is always called.

Another thing to consider is that it is very fancy and may put pressure on her to live up being special like the name.

Nope, none of you many would use this name really. You know it too.

Give your kid a decent name. YABVU.

Like Maddie Mookins?

I'm not the only one reading half these posts in the voice of Al Murray am I?

"What we need is a propah English name. Calliope?? What's that when it's at home"

My DD has a name, it wont be questioned, ridiculed, etc. It's not common and not unusual. At least I'm not sending my DD to school called NOAH.

Lysander
Lucian
Artemis

It's the name of a gift shop in a town near me.

I appreciate you probably are referencing Calliope the muse, but the second wiki entry might not be as romantic en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope_(music)

Ds had positional taliopes when he was born. That's what the name reminds me of.

I love it, partly thanks to Susan Cooper's excellent book 'Seaward' with the female protagonist nicknamed Cally it's DD's middle name as we weren't quite brave enough to have it as her first

I think it's fine in the UK or the US. Some people won't immediately clock that it's a Greek myth name, pronounced according to the same rules as all the other Greek myth names, but they'll pick it up pretty quickly. And in a modern class full of Niamhs, Ifeoluwas, Heulwens and (if they're very unlucky) Boglarkas, she'll be fine.

However IME these names really don't travel well. Anglophones have a fifty-fifty chance of getting them, and Greeks, of course. But outside of that you're screwed.

It's beautiful and unusual. Calliope was the Ancient Greek muse of epic poetry. I'd do it!

I really like it (but I am a Greys Anatomy fan)

Calliope was one of our mooted names for DS2 ( if he'd been a girl obviously! ) until a friend said that it sounded a bit like cannelloni! We ditched it pretty quickly, but I still like it.

It's not name I'd burden a child with tbh but if you want to, then hey your choice.

It was one I considered. I really like it.

A muse and a town in Australia.
I like it and no Calli

If you wish people to think you are a pretentious twit then go with Calliope.

"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!"

what? it ticks your last box with a massive tick

I have never watched Grays, love the name and know how to pronounce it.

If you love it, go for it OP.

It's a beautiful name and if you love it then YANBU.

Your child will spend a significant portion of their life spelling it out to people and correcting their pronunciation, but the same could be said for many names.

If it's good enough for Felicia Day, it's good enough for me.