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Cal, Callie, Nia,

Meanings and history of the name Calpurnia: | Edit

This was the name of the wife of Julius Caesar, dictator of ancient Rome. Her nightmares before the Ides of March failed to deter her husband from going out to meet his fate at the Roman forum that day. He was assassinated by a clique of Senators led by Cassius and Brutus.

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Calpurnia Pisonis, third and last wife of Julius Caesar
Calpurnia, third and last wife of Pliny the Younger and granddaughter Calpurnus Fabatus
Calpernia Addams, an American transgender author and activist

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Calpurnia, the cook and maid to the Finch family in the book To Kill a Mockingbird
Ms. Calpurnia Crisp from the comic book series "Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things"