Calliope
#451 for girls in 2025, 682 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 682 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,098since 1917
Calliope over time
Rank among girls' names. Calliope has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #451 | 682 |
| 2024 | #498 | 614 |
| 2023 | #492 | 622 |
| 2022 | #587 | 510 |
| 2021 | #599 | 497 |
| 2020 | #692 | 411 |
| 2019 | #706 | 407 |
| 2018 | #807 | 337 |
| 2017 | #813 | 335 |
| 2016 | #941 | 291 |
| 2015 | #1,146 | 221 |
| 2014 | #1,228 | 199 |
| 2013 | #1,267 | 187 |
| 2012 | #1,510 | 147 |
| 2011 | #1,661 | 128 |
| 2010 | #2,220 | 87 |
| 2009 | #3,088 | 55 |
| 2008 | #3,478 | 47 |
| 2007 | #3,786 | 42 |
| 2006 | #4,165 | 35 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
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| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
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| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
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| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
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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.
Where Calliope is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#649 · 1 in 3,016
- Michigan#1,238 · 1 in 8,319
- Pennsylvania#1,367 · 1 in 10,583
- Florida#1,574 · 1 in 11,369
- Illinois#1,653 · 1 in 12,163
Best ever in a state: #37 in Alaska, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #649 | 5 | 1 in 3,016 |
| Michigan | #1,238 | 5 | 1 in 8,319 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,367 | 5 | 1 in 10,583 |
| Florida | #1,574 | 7 | 1 in 11,369 |
| Illinois | #1,653 | 5 | 1 in 12,163 |
| California | #2,077 | 11 | 1 in 19,182 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Calliope
- 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)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2025 at #451 (682 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,357 girls born in 2025 were named Calliope (0.04%)
- 54.7% of all girls named Calliope (3,336) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 7 | #3,713 (1917) | #3,713 |
| 1920s | 43 | #3,655 (1922) | #4,310 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,411 (1932) | #4,411 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,414 (1951) | #5,621 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #8,292 (1972) | #8,292 |
| 1980s | 11 | #9,307 (1985) | #10,553 |
| 1990s | 55 | #7,880 (1990) | #10,234 |
| 2000s | 287 | #3,088 (2009) | #5,813 |
| 2010s | 2,339 | #706 (2019) | #1,230 |
| 2020s | 3,336 | #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 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
More about 2010
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1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 20,432 of them was named Calliope, which outranked 88.8% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,202Suzanne88
- #2,202Yajaira88
- #2,202Zora88
- #2,220Calliope87
- #2,220Aliyana87
- #2,220Anastacia87
- #2,220Ashlin87
- #2,237Adisyn86
- #2,237Aislyn86
- #2,237Blythe86
Tied with 16 names at #2,220; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.