Calla
[ˈkæl.ə]Meaning
from the name of two white-flowered plants, the calla and the calla lily
Background Story
The plant name Calla is from Latin calla, applied to the genus by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The Latin word traces to a single mention in Pliny the Elder's Naturalis historia, read by most scholars as calyx. A variant spelling of the given name is Kalla.
Related Names
Bluma
From Yiddish בלום (blum), meaning "flower"
Caisy
Candy
Diminutive of Candace, influenced by the English word candy
Daysi
A given name recorded in Spanish (Latin American), feminine
Daysy
Deisy
Spanish form of the English name Daisy
Fleur
Means "flower" in French
Flora
From Latin flos, "flower"; the name of the Roman goddess of flowers and spring
Lilly
English variant of Lily, and used in Scandinavia as a form of Lily or of Elisabeth
Petula
English feminine given name of unknown meaning, created in the 20th century