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Updated: March 20, 2025
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Chalice
  • Greek : Most lovely

How Popular Is The Name Calix

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan and Portuguese (Càlix) : unexplained; it seems to refer to Portuguese cálice, Catalan càliç ‘communion cup’; or in Catalan it could perhaps be from calitx denoting a throwing game, with the same etymology.

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