Entry № 5165 · Greek origin

Kalliope Kalliope — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kuh-LY-uh-pee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Beautiful voice (Greek Muse of epic poetry)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "beautiful voice (greek muse of epic poetry)".

Kalliope is the Greek spelling of Calliope — from kallos (beauty) + ops (voice) — beautiful voice. Calliope Jukebox — modern American jukebox brand. Callie Stephanides — central character of Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (2002), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2003); the intersex Greek-American narrator's full name is Calliope. Calliope Torres — Grey's Anatomy character.

Beautiful voice (Greek Muse of epic poetry) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Καλλιόπη
Transliteration
Kalliópē
Pronunciation
/ kəˈlaɪ.ə.pi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kalliope stands.

Kalliope does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kalliopes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalliope
Chief of the Greek Muses.
Calliope Stephanides
Eugenides's Middlesex.
2002

Names connected to Kalliope.

The number behind Kalliope.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kalliope reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.