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Calixta

OriginGreek
Meaning"most beautiful"
US RankUnranked

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About Calixta

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.

Pronounced kuh-LIK-stuh.

As of October 2026, Calixta ranked #15676 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #11311 in 2021.

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