Cali Family History
Cali Name Meaning
Italian (southern; Calì): from the Greek female personal name Kalē from the feminine form of the adjective kalos ‘good beautiful’. Albanian (Çali): nickname from çal (definite form çali) ‘cripple lame man’. Possibly also an American shortened and altered form of Greek Kalis a cognate of 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022