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Kalliopi
Say it: kah-lee-OH-pee
Meaning
Greek kallos 'beauty' and ops 'voice', the Muse of epic poetry.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Also honoured as an early Christian martyr, which kept the name in church use.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 264 babies given this name since 1970
- At its height in 1973, about 1 in 121,500 girls
- 10 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Popi
| English | Calliope |
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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