Calix
Boy · KAL-iks · Latin
Calix is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “cup, chalice”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies) and 2,006th for boys in the US (75 babies).
What does Calix mean?
Latin: Latin word; also linked to Calixto, from Greek kallistos
“cup, chalice”
Latin calix, 'cup', is the root of chalice; the name also recalls Pope Callixtus I, a 3rd-century martyr.
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Is Calix a girl's or a boy's name?
Calix is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK and 75 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Calix in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,329among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Calix, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,108th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Calix in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Calix in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 7 | #2,922 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,399 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,161 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #3,529 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
How popular is Calix in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,006among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 75about 1 in 23,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 75 boys in the US were named Calix, making it the 2,006th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,688th. It first appears in the records in 2002.
2025 had the most boys named Calix of any year since it first appeared, in 2002.
Half of all the boys named Calix in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 103 boys in the US were given Calix or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,455, up from #2,006 for this spelling alone.
- Calix 75
- Kalix 28
Calix in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,006 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,288 |
| 2023 | 47 | #2,736 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,298 |
| 2021 | 54 | #2,463 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,688 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,581 |
| 2018 | 54 | #2,416 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,777 |
| 2016 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2015 | 31 | #3,512 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,659 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,621 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,631 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,820 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,516 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,033 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,710 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,638 |
| 2006 | 24 | #3,998 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,241 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,081 |
Nicknames for Calix
- Cal 10 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Calix
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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