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 😊

I hate it. It makes me think of a melon.

If I were you, I would try introducing myself as Calliope (to someone I don't know) and see how it feels.

Thanks for all the input, really appreciate it. Taking on board the mispronunciation/spelling, however I've spent my life spelling my name out for people and don't mind it, and honestly with our surname our kids will have to get used to that anyway 🤣

I'm going to look into the Grey's reference as that seems to have come up quite a bit, but at the moment we still love it.

I love it, but then I loved the character on Greys Anatomy!

Ha ha, best reply ever!

I love it but it does scream Greys Anatomy to me. Her character was a bisexual surgeon, the actress who played her is famously non binary and pretty awesome so it's not a bad association.

I like it, not Callie though, and it’s a waste of a great name.

I have no reference at all to Greys Anatomy fwiw.

Love it, my immediate association was the greys anatomy character but I really like her so it’s not a bad one

Me too!

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I prefer Callista or Callia. You can also use the Greek spelling of Kalista/Kalia. The name means 'beautiful one' in greek and I'm surprised it's not more popular. Apparently it's an extremely dated/ old lady name. Was on my shortlist out of 2 final names for both dc but was convinced out of using it for that reason and still want to use it now although no more dc for me 😆

I like it, and the pee at the end is no different to Penelope, so take no notice of that

My daughters middle name is Clarice, she loves it and wishes it was her first name. We don’t know anyone with that name, only Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs 🤓

I love the name Calliope, it’s what I wanted to name dd1 but wasn’t brave enough so went with something different.