Cali
[ˈkæli]Meaning
Variant of Callie, or a Somali form of Ali; also a clipping of California and the Spanish name of Cali, Colombia.
Background Story
Behind the Name records Cali as a variant of Callie, used in languages including Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German and Hungarian, and separately as a Somali form of Ali, used in Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Hausa, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz and Malay. Wiktionary gives it as an English clipping of California, and as an English name from Spanish Cali, from Calima, the name of the Colombian city of Santiago de Cali.
Temperament
Variations
Callie, Cally
Related Names
Aemy
Alli
Finnish diminutive of names beginning with al; also the finnish word for a type of duck
Arla
A variant of 'Harla', meaning 'the one who is noble'.
Ayvi
Bess
Diminutive of Elizabeth
Bitty
Recorded as a feminine given name in English
Caacie
Caci
A diminutive of the name 'Catherine', meaning pure.
Cadi
A short form of the name Catrin
Cadie
An English given name recorded for both feminine and masculine use