Entry № 1725 · Greek origin

Calla Calla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Beautiful; the calla lily"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "beautiful; the calla lily".

Calla comes from the Greek kalós, meaning "beautiful" — and is the name of the calla lily, the elegant trumpet-shaped flower. The botanical Latin name is Zantedeschia; the common name Calla stuck from the Greek root.

Calla as a girl's name is rising — currently rare in the U.S. but distinctive.

Beautiful. The white trumpet-shaped lily.

The name in its native script.

καλλα
Transliteration
Kalla
Pronunciation
/ ˈkæl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Calla stands.

Calla does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Callas before her.

Real people
Calla
Rare; few notable bearers.
In fiction

Names connected to Calla.

The number behind Calla.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Calla reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.