Kalypso
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- kuh-LIP-soh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Kalypso is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “she who conceals”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Kalypso mean?
Greek: spelling of Calypso; from Greek kalyptein 'to conceal'
“she who conceals”
In Homer's Odyssey the nymph Calypso keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years.
Meaning borrowed from Calypso.
Is Kalypso a girl's or a boy's name?
Kalypso is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kalypso in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Kalypso, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Kalypso in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 71 girls in the US were given Kalypso or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,126, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
- Calypso 59
- Kalypso 12
Kalypso in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
Nicknames for Kalypso
- Callie 359 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Kalypso
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kehlani Kaylani Kailani Xolani Kalani Meilani Naylani Nailani Kylani Malani Ailany Kaelani
Other spellings of Kalypso
More Greek names
Luca Theodore Sophia George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Penelope Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Sophie Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kalypso: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kalypso, updated 20 October 2026.