To call my baby calliope?

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Pronounced cal-y-oh-pee

Is it awful?

Never heard of Felicia Day. Actress, Singer?

And in a modern class full of Niamhs, Ifeoluwas, Heulwens and (if they're very unlucky) Boglarkas, she'll be fine.

Full? These names, aside from Niamh, are very little used in the UK.

I'm in London

Actress on Supernatural

I'm in London grin

They'd have to all be in London, then, to get a class full. It is possible I suppose

Ah an actress! Thank you.

I have a DD with this name but we spell it with a K. She is known by her nickname which is also a very popular name in Greece. It comes from the Greek words for beauty and voice.

Really! Ha ha!

Cally-what? No sorry just don't get it. Never heard of it. Maybe if I'd watched the same programmes I'd feel differently. But will these programmes be around in 10 or 20 years when people are still trying to pronounce it?

I would say 'Cally Ope' (like Cally Hope). I don't like it, sorry.

I like it - but I like Calypso more.

Calypso sounds like the woman the amateur male detective in a 30s detective novel would have a crush on. She'd be studying at the Slade, have a bob, advanced views, a wonderful painting technique and an incisive turn of phrase.

I think it is pretentious and ugly/clunky. Can't believe so many people think it is pretty!

It's beautiful. I know one, who is now a lovely bright kind grown up, which makes me like that name even more.

With almost every name, there will be someone who can't pronounce or remember it or finds a way to turn it into a mean nickname. You can't ever rule that out. So don't not choose the name you love

I thought it was calipo as in the ice lollies.

I like it and would know how to say it. Also like Calypso, it reminds me of The Chamomile Lawn.

Greys Anatomy may be lost in the mists of time in twenty years time, but the name dates back at least 2,700 years and I don't think Ovid and Hesiod will have been forgotten completely by 2037.

He will be called pee at high school obviously but all kids, especially boys, have nick names so why not

Rhymes too much with dopey, sounds like melon, so, no I wouldn't but you can

Just to add had two teen boys and two teen girls and all had nick names

So pretty

Sorry, sounds ugly, clunky and pretentious to me.

And, as others have said, reminiscent of talipes, callipo lollies, cannelloni, calipers, canteloupes, and a horse going clip clop.

It's a beautiful name, it's not difficult to pronounce at all and can be shortened to Callie. I have an acquaintance who named their daughter Calliope, it's sweet.

The thing about people not being able to spell it, in my experience people make a song and dance about spelling my extremely common and easy to spell name. It's not enough of an issue to base your choice upon.

I was going to say Felicia day just used it. I wouldn't use it personally but I don't find it offensive. Callie is a lovely nickname.

People might mistakenly hear cantaloupe

I'm not getting this melon/cantaloupe thing. It sounds nothing like cantaloupe. It has four syllables, the rhythm is different and the absence of the middle 't' and internal rhyme radically distinguishes it. I'm guessing the people who think it sounds like cantaloupe think it is visually similar (initial 'c' and final 'pe').

Kiman, anyone stupid enough to hear cal-y-oh-pee as cantaloupe isn't worth knowing anyway.

Maddie, no one is going to tell you their DC name if it's forrin, that's your only objection?

Also, I was born in England but guess what, I learnt to spell my own name. Wtf is with some of these posters?