Calliope

#451 for girls in 2025, 682 births

Peak · girls
2025 · 682 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
6,098
since 1917

Calliope over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Calliope has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#451682
2024#498614
2023#492622
2022#587510
2021#599497
2020#692411
2019#706407
2018#807337
2017#813335
2016#941291
2015#1,146221
2014#1,228199
2013#1,267187
2012#1,510147
2011#1,661128
2010#2,22087
2009#3,08855
2008#3,47847
2007#3,78642
2006#4,16535
2005#3,94236
2004#7,82814
2003#4,80426
2002#7,81613
2001#9,35110
2000#9,8749
1999#10,3458
1998#8,58410
1997#9,0179
1996#13,5185
1995#10,5147
1994#11,7786
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1985#9,3076
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1972#8,2925
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1929#4,5705
1928#3,7437
1927#3,8757
1926#4,8515
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1923#4,3766
1922#3,6558
1921#5,0995
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1917#3,7137
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First appearance
1917

The first year at least five girls were named Calliope! It came in at #3,713, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Calliope
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 47 spots since 2024 (#498#451)
  • 241 spots since 2020 (#692#451)
  • 695 spots since 2015 (#1,146#451)
  • Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2016 (#1,146#941)
  • Biggest drop: 6 spots in 2024 (#492#498)
Rise & fade · girls
108 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1917
  • Peaked 2025 at #451 (682 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,357
  • Highest: 1 in 2,357 girls born in 2025 were named Calliope (0.04%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 54.7% of all girls named Calliope (3,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s7#3,713 (1917)#3,713
1920s43#3,655 (1922)#4,310
1930s5#4,411 (1932)#4,411
1940s0
1950s10#5,414 (1951)#5,621
1960s0
1970s5#8,292 (1972)#8,292
1980s11#9,307 (1985)#10,553
1990s55#7,880 (1990)#10,234
2000s287#3,088 (2009)#5,813
2010s2,339#706 (2019)#1,230
2020s3,336#451 (2025)#553

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Calliope in 1917

girls
#3,713
7 births · 1 in 154,467 girls

Top girls' names in 1917

  1. #1Mary64,280
  2. #2Helen34,251
  3. #3Dorothy28,852
  4. #4Margaret25,560
  5. #5Ruth23,568
  6. #6Mildred16,256
  7. #7Anna15,160
  8. #8Elizabeth15,131
  9. #9Frances14,363
  10. #10Virginia14,261
  11. #3,713Calliope7
More about 1917

girls

1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 154,467 of them was named Calliope, which outranked 30.1% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Calliope
  1. #3,344Winnona8
  2. #3,344Wretha8
  3. #3,344Zelta8
  4. #3,713Calliope7
  5. #3,713Addine7
  6. #3,713Adene7
  7. #3,713Adina7
  8. #4,083Addis6
  9. #4,083Adelaine6
  10. #4,083Adena6

Tied with 369 names at #3,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 549Georgene#1,445#896
  2. 380Ottie#1,332#952
  3. 365Louis#1,298#933
  4. 334Valentine#1,298#964
  5. 322Harold#1,210#888
Fallers
  1. 401Ceola#840#1,241
  2. 373Floretta#964#1,337
  3. 344Buelah#993#1,337
  4. 326Glennie#915#1,241
  5. 290Maye#915#1,205

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1917