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A very beautiful name with ties to Greek mythology, you could call your daughter ‘Callie’ or ‘Cal’ for short. When I have a daughter, I fully plan to name her this.
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I personally pronounce this name as kah-LYE-oh-pee.
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I don't get the hate here! The seventh guideline specifically says not to leave negative comments about foreign names just because they are foreign. So what if it sounds like "canteloupe" to some people? That doesn't change the fact that it is still a gorgeous name.
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Pretty name. Also can have multiple nicknames. Callie is so far my favorite.
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I love the pronunciation the nicknames, the meaning, and most things about this name. I have to use all my willpower not to name my kid this because I know how annoying it is when people can never get your name down. I wanna name my cat this, though.
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Don't like any of the pronunciations.
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Calliope Mori is an English Virtual Youtuber associated with hololive. She is under hololive's first generation of English V-tubers, holoMyth. She usually goes by the nickname Calli. Her viewers also call her their dad.
More about her: https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Mori_Calliope
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More about her: https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Mori_Calliope
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This name is really weird.
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Strange name.
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Kal-ee-O-pee sounds better.
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Awful!
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For years, I thought this was pronounced cah-lee-op. I love it much more now that I know the real pronunciation! It’s cute, and I like the nickname Callie.
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I don't like this name at all.
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My name is Calliope and I use Callie as a nickname.
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Calliope is one of the nine Muses. She is the Muse of Epic Poetry. She is considered the most significant Muse because she "attends on worshipful princes." She is usually depicted wearing a gold crown and carrying a writing tablet, a scroll, or a book in her hand.
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In my opinion, this sounds kind of masculine. Not really my thing.
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In Lauren Oliver's Replica series, there is a character named Calliope. She turns out to be an antagonist, even attempting to kill Gemma, one of the protagonists.
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The name Calliope was given to 289 girls born in the US in 2016.
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Calliope Zina, known professionally as Peggy Zina, is a Greek singer. She made her recording debut in 1995 with her self-titled album. She has since released twelve studio albums and is a high-profile artist in the Greek music industry. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Zina the 24th top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960), totaling nine (five at the time) platinum and two gold records.
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I was going to be named Calliope, but my mum liked the English pronunciation better (cal-eye-oh-pee) instead of the Greek version (Kah-li-oh-pee) which was what my family would've called me instead.
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The name Calliope was given to 218 girls born in the US in 2015.
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My name is Calliope. For starters she was the Greek Muse of Epic & Heroic poetry. Yes, it is a steam organ, but I think that's cool! I love music and I love having a name that's heavily associated with music! As for going by "Callie" I think it doesn't make sense. Call-eye-oh-pee. So I often go by Calli. (Call-eye) I love my name because it's so original. I've never met another Calliope in my life. I also love having a name that has history! It's a great conversation starter & I get at least one compliment on my name daily. It can be hard with teachers, professors, speakers, baristas, etc. But that's also fun! I make a joke out of it. Seeing who can butcher my name the most! All in all, I think this name is beautiful and has so much meaning.
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Sometimes nicknamed or shortened to "Poppy".
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When this name is pronounced cal-EYE-oh-pee it makes me want to rip my hair out. Yes, that is a perfectly acceptable English pronunciation but it is just so terrible to the Greek speaker's ear. Cal-ee-OH-pee is just so, so much prettier and is the actual original Greek pronunciation of the name.
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I like this name but we used it for a dog in my family, we call her Callie, so I can't get the association out of my head, even though the name itself is pretty. We pronounce it cal-EYE-o-pee.
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The name Calliope was actually given to 142 poor little girls born in the US in 2012. It sounds nice, but it's a little much to use on a real person.
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The Greek pronunciation is kal-ee-O-pee with the first ee sound said very quickly so it sounds like kal-YO-pee.
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For some reason, I find it funny to think this has not been mentioned yet, but 'Calliope' is the name of a character from a web-comic called Homestuck. She's an alien and the namesake plays a role in her characterization. Calliope is one of the nine muses in Greek mythology and this is interpreted in story through making her something called the 'Muse of Space.'
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This name reminds me of the word "karaoke" due to the way I would pronounce it ("kal-lee-o-pee").
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This name is probably one of the weirdest names I have ever heard, it reminds me of cantaloupe.
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Sorry, but it's all carousels and crazy circus music to me. I don't like it at all, even with the cute nickname Callie.
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I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet - but a calliope is also a large musical instrument.
It works by sending steam through large whistles. They are very loud, and there is no provision for altering tone or volume - just the duration of the notes.
Calliopes are often associated with fairgrounds, carnivals and circuses.
The name of them is often pronounced to rhyme with "hope".
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It works by sending steam through large whistles. They are very loud, and there is no provision for altering tone or volume - just the duration of the notes.
Calliopes are often associated with fairgrounds, carnivals and circuses.
The name of them is often pronounced to rhyme with "hope".
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I would like this name so much more if it wasn't for the book Middlesex. It doesn't bother me that Calliope in the book is a hermaphrodite, it bothers me that she's such an awful character, and she makes a stupid decision in the end.
I'm going to digress now. The meaning and history behind this name is beautiful, but I would think some parents who name their daughter this would feel smug and brag about the meaning with every given opportunity.
I'm also not fond of the nickname "Callie", because it's a very common nickname for so many other obscure names like Calanthe, Calista, Calypso, etc (not that they're bad names). I prefer Lolly or Poppy.
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I'm going to digress now. The meaning and history behind this name is beautiful, but I would think some parents who name their daughter this would feel smug and brag about the meaning with every given opportunity.
I'm also not fond of the nickname "Callie", because it's a very common nickname for so many other obscure names like Calanthe, Calista, Calypso, etc (not that they're bad names). I prefer Lolly or Poppy.
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I love the name Calliope--and Callie as a nickname--but it is hard to get the "Middlesex"* association out of my head.
*--In "Middlesex", protagonist Calliope has 5-Alpha-reductase deficiency, which means that she physically looked like a girl as a child, but was genetically male; so when puberty arose, her body changed into that of a young man, and Calliope developed "Cal", a male identity.
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*--In "Middlesex", protagonist Calliope has 5-Alpha-reductase deficiency, which means that she physically looked like a girl as a child, but was genetically male; so when puberty arose, her body changed into that of a young man, and Calliope developed "Cal", a male identity.
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Calliope was the muse of heroic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne in Greek mythology. Her name means "beautiful voiced".
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It is a little unpleasant to have "-pee" on the end of a name. But don't get me wrong, I like this name well enough - after all it is my name - but still, I'm not sure I'd like people to think of pee whenever they hear it.
I go by Callie.
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I go by Callie.
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Calliope makes me think of a very joyful girl. It sounds as if it has a bounce to it. Even though I love music, I wouldn't like an instrument to pop in someone's mind when they hear the name.
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Calliope is the name of a female character in Francesca Lia Block's novels Ecstasia and Primavera. These works are heavily influenced by myth.
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Calliope is the name of the daughter of Kratos, the protagonist of the God of War video game series.
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Calliope is a character in the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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Calliope is a character in the graphic novel Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Her story is in the collection Fables & Reflections. According to the comic's canon, Morpheus was actually the lover and husband of Calliope, and the father of Orpheus. In another deviation from the traditional myths, Calliope is stated as being the youngest of the nine muses, rather than the eldest.
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A magical woman named Calliope acts as a Muse for the protagonist of the novel Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff. Though she is never explicitly said to be the Calliope of Greek mythology, she is immortal, magical, and is described as enjoying retsina and feta, both Greek foods.
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This is my daughter's name. We prefer to call her Callie because we think that it will be easier for her when she goes to school. I think this name is just beautiful!
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This is the real name of Dr. Callie Torres on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
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Calla and Callia are Greek nicknames for girls named Calliope.
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Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, was the ironic name Jeffrey Eugenides called his narrator in his novel Middlesex.
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In the Rogers and Hammerstein version of "Cinderella" Calliope is one of Cinderella's evil step sisters.
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As it is a Hellenic (Greek) name, and also my name, the correct pronunciation of it is: Ka-llyi-oh-pyi. Some other linguists however relate it to beautiful eyes from the present perfect tense of the verb "see" (simple present: orao (type A), oro (type B), opopa (present perfect) and opthalmos which is the eye in Ancient Hellenic) and some others to beautiful face from "opsis".
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The actual pronunciation of this name is 'Kall-ee-oh-pee' not 'Kall-eye-oh-pee'
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