Calista Name Meaning & Origin
Calista
Pronunciation: kah-LEES-tə (key)
Origin of the name Calista:
From the Greek Kallistō, a name meaning "she that is most beautiful," which is derived from kallos (beauty, beautiful). The name is borne in Roman mythology by a nymph, a daughter of the Arcadian king Lycaon, and mother of Arcas. Beloved by Jupiter, she was transformed into a she-bear by Juno and then placed among the constellations.
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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Cal, Callie, Cali, Lissy
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Calista Flockhart - American actress
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Caliste is the beautiful but tragic title character in the eighteenth-century novel by Isabelle de Charrière. Calista is also the main character in "The Fair Penitent," a very popular early eighteenth-century play by Nicolas Rowe. Sarah Siddons was the most famous real-life actress who played the role of Calista. (But the character Caliste in Charrière's novel is an actress who becomes known by the name of her most successful role...which is Calista in "The Fair Penitent"!).
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