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.

Calixta Popularity

• 1927 Nameberry 2024

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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"