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cali Name Meaning and History

Southern Italian (Calì) and Greek (Kalis): from the female personal name Kale, from the feminine form of the adjective kalos ‘good’, ‘beautiful’, or possibly from a shortened form of the male name Kallistos ‘best’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cali family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of cali Families in the US in 1920
Number of cali families
 33-64
 12-32
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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