We have a 2 year old called Calliope (pronounced like Cal-Eye-O-P, think similar to how Penelope ends!) who goes by Callie most of the time. We fell in love with the name when I was pregnant with her and found out at 16 weeks I was having a girl and from then on she was Calliope. Really easy decision to make and we never queried our decision.
Pregnant again now with a second little girl and finding it SO much harder to find a name to go with it! Before we heard Calliope we quite liked Willow and DH thinks we should go with that for a girl but I’m not sure the two names go together very well.
I did a little Google and (I assume because of the Greek connection) Ophelia came up as an option. I absolutely love it, and think it would be a perfect sibling match and similar to Calliope has the option to shorten it. DH is not so sure and is worried it would be shortened to FiFi which makes him think of a dog (and I secretly love!).
My name is reasonably unusual. Not anything that would shock you but it’s unusual in that I’ve never met anyone else with the same spelling as mine, and I was the only one in school with this name but it’s definitely not super ‘out there’. DH has a consistently ‘top 100’ boys name and is worried it may look odd if we go with two quite unusual names (I mean it’s a bit late now for Calliope but oh well!).
If you heard Calliope and Ophelia, would it sound negative to you? Any alternative names you could suggest?
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NamingBabies · 31/03/2021 12:19
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Her middle name is Iphigenia, which is similar to Ophelia
She also has a sister Aria in the show.
Although, granted, I agree there’s a chance you probably don’t want to name your child based off the characters of a tv show!
As soon as I read the name I thought "Arizona" but not sure naming sisters after lovers is really appropriate. 😂
Calliope and Ophelia are both beautiful names, and would make a lovely sibset.
If you're still stuck for ideas, how about...
Aurelia (means golden princess 
)
Evelina (means wished for child)
Seraphina
Anastasia
Ariadne
Athena
Evangeline
Genevieve
Cecilia
Thank you all! Some really lovely other suggestions here too, thank you!
In response to some of the comments further up - it doesn’t have to be Greek at all, we didn’t name Calliope because it was Greek we just loved her name, and when I googled names that went with it Ophelia was suggested for (I assume) the Greek connection. It’s not something we consciously chose but the Greek name suggestions are beautiful!
Thank you for all the lovely comments about Calliope - we love it too! We did hear it on Grey’s initially truth be told As much as I do genuinely like Arizona as a name, I just couldn’t do it to them haha.
Also actually a little relieved to hear the name Ophelia isn’t super out there. Again we’re not consciously going for unique/different names, like with the Greek thing. We genuinely just loved the name Calliope but feel like we can’t have a Calliope and a Hannah (apologies to any Hannah’s!).
DH has agreed he does like the name, it’s just the shortening he’s worried about, although as a few of you have said I guess it doesn’t actually have to be shortened as Ophelia is a lovely name on its own!
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