Calliope

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What are people's thoughts on Calliope (Ka/Kuh-Lie-Oh-Pea) with a nickname of Callie?

We love "different" and toying with this currently 😊

Love it.

I have an unusual name mentioned on this thread. People mispronounce it, not so much now as it[s famous, but so what?

Most classical names are Greek in origin surely? Don[t know why you would presume Greek heritage.

Beautiful name, go for it! Lovely for a little girl, lovely for a professional woman, lovely nicknames.

I don't like it either.

Nor did I say it as you say it should be said, when I read it.

It sounds medical to me.

Its terrible, it looks like cantaloupe.

Callie is married to Arizona in Grey’s Anatomy…

I love Callie but less keen on Calliope. Apparently it can also be short for Caroline or Callista (though that will start the Ally McBeal comparisons 😃)?

Never watched Grey's Anatomy, however, my first thought was an Orthopaedic condition.

Lovely name! Will definitely come with many mistakes to how to pronounce it because phonics doesn't comply to everything. But once you T

I love it and nn Callie

Callipers

Remember that it’s not you who will have to spend her whole life repeating her name/spelling her name/correcting the pronunciation/giving up correcting the pronunciation….

I always think of callipers too.

I like it but also read as cally-oh-pea..but am sure would adjust once I'd met one! really like Callie as a nn know a lovely one...but she was a Callista....

Knew a girl called Calico which is my favourite of thr Callies. I think Calliope sounds nice in theory but as with most frilly three syllable names it's a bit tio much of a mouthful in practice. Nowhere near Ottilie levels though and that is everywhere.

@ReadtheReviews , Calliope is 4 syllables not 3. It's nice but a bit of a mouthful.

Ottilie is nice if you say it the german way, Ott-ill-ee-uh, but I think it's just Ottilly in the UK.

To be honest, I find it quite pretentious. I also think it would get mispronounced a lot.
I'm not sure myself how to say it - I've read that Americans say kuh-LIE-uh-pee with the "lie" sound, but actual Greeks say it more like kah-lee-OH-pee, so I wouldn't know which one to use.

I don't like it. Sounds too complicated and she be forever asked to spell it out. Callie is nice though

A man called Calliope? That is challenging.

I like the name, OP.

I've also heard this re Greek vs American. I've spent years assuming it was only ever pronounced as kah lee oh pee and the American way annoys me so I don't think I could get over that. But it's a perfectly usable name in my opinion. And Callie is fine.

I think its an ok name. The main character in Geoffrey Eugenides book Middlesex is called Calliope

I like it. It’s not at the top of my list, but I’d like to meet a little one.

I like it, as long as your surname fits and she doesn't end up a Callie O'Malley

I just think of Thomas the Tank Engine episode where the old calliope gets repaired by Victor at the steam works .

Personally not a fan and have known 3 beings with the name my whole life, two cats and a dog so for me it's always been associated with pet names.

But who cares what others think if you love it.

Absolutely lovely....and I would have used it but I had boys.

I really like it! My name is less 'complicated' but gets mixed up a LOT it doesn't bother me.

Which is funny because the Grey's character is a kick ass orthopaedic surgeon!