Callie
Meaning of Callie
Callie began as an English pet form of Caroline and of names starting with Cal-, such as Callista and Calliope. Because those two names come from Greek words related to beauty, Callie is often said to mean beautiful. It is pronounced KAL-ee.
Screenwriter Callie Khouri won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Thelma & Louise. On television, Dr. Callie Torres, whose full name is Calliope, was a longtime character on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy.
In the United States, Callie had its highest ranking in 1880, at 122nd. It then fell for decades, reaching a low of 1,189th in 1966, before climbing back from the 1970s on. A record 1,763 girls received the name in 2014, and in 2025 it ranked 175th with 1,754 girls.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as KAL-ee (/ˈkæli/)
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Notable People Named Callie
| Callie Khouri is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for writing Thelma and Louise, which won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was added to the National Film Registry in 2016. |
| Callie Brownson is an American football coach and former player who served as the Cleveland Browns assistant wide receivers coach and in 2018 became the first woman hired as a full-time Division I football coach at Dartmouth. |
| Callie Crossley is a Boston-based American broadcast journalist and radio host. |
| Callie Marie Hernandez is an American actress known for roles in the films Blair Witch, La La Land, The Endless, and Alien: Covenant. |
