Calixta

Greek
"most beautiful"

Calixta Origin and Meaning

The name Calixta is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "most beautiful".

Calista Flockhart may have made her variation of this beautiful Greek name familiar to modern Americans, but the even-edgier x version was the name of an earlier feminist heroine: a character in Kate Chopin's The Storm.

# 1951 on Nameberry

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Famous People Named Calixta

  • Calixta Agnes Adelaide Irmgard Helene Caroline Elise Emma of Lippe
    Biesterfeld, Princess Waldemar of Prussia
  • Calixthe Beyala
    Cameroonian novelist
  • Calixte Paquet "Calixa" dit Lavallée
    French,Canadian,American male composer who wrote "O Canada"

Calixta in Pop Culture

  • Calixta
    character in Kate Chopin's short story "The Storm"
  • Calixta
    character in American telenovela "Una Maid en Manhattan"
  • Calixta Popoca
    character in Mexican telenovela "Maria la del Barrio"