Kaliksta
Fewer than 30 women in Poland carry Kaliksta, and no girls received it last year: most Poles will never meet one. It comes from Greek, with the sense of "the fairest".
Kaliksta Pronunciation
Kaliksta is pronounced kah-LEEKS-tah (/kaˈliksta/).
What Kaliksta means
Where Kaliksta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kaliksta comes from the Greek kallistos, the superlative of kalos, beautiful. The name says most beautiful, najpiękniejsza, the top of the scale with nothing above it. Its masculine variant, Kalikst, sets out from the same Greek word.
That word gave the early Church a famous name. Callixtus I, Kalikst in Polish, was bishop of Rome in the third century and later a saint. A saint means a place in the calendar, and Kalikst holds his day in October. Kaliksta stands beside him as the feminine form.
Today the name is scarce. A teacher reading a class register in Poland might meet one Kaliksta in a long career. The name claims the highest word Greek had for beauty. Read it back to its root and it still says one thing. Most beautiful.
When Kaliksta celebrates name day
Kaliksta appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 19 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kaliksta
1 in 939326 women in Poland is named Kaliksta. 24 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8802 among female names.
Kaliksta as a middle name
Kaliksta is a first name for 24 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 65/35 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2087th, between Jutrzenka (13) and Karmena (13).
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#2085 Johanne13
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#2086 Jutrzenka13
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#2087 Kaliksta13
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#2088 Karmena13
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#2089 Kasja13