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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