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Pronounced Kah-ly-ah-pee. (Same ending as Penelope, if that helps!)

Calliope was the Greek muse of epic/heroic poetry.

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Callie
I have heard Calliope is a fairly common name in Greece, and many of the girls go by the name Poppy.

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Greek muse of epic and heroic poetry

also the name for the instrument, similar in sound to an organ, that provides music for carousels and similar carnival rides

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Calliope is the name of the main character in Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning novel Middlesex. The character is born with ambiguous genitalia and is raised as a girl though she is genetically male.
Dr. Calliope "Callie" Torrez is a character in the TV series, "Grey's Anatomy".