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I like Callie a lot! It's better as a nickname for the names other users have already mentioned but it's alright as a full name too. It's not overly childish or unprofessional sounding like a lot of diminutives. I can respect Kali as a goddess name but that's pronounced differently used by non-Hindu parents it would just come off as trendy and incomplete.

I've always thought it was cute. It has a sort of dated feel to the Carly, Kelly, Holly type days, but it's upbeat and I like that.

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I'd use it as a nickname for Caroline.

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I don't like Kali, it looks too pointy and harsh.

I like Callie better than Kali. Kali is too short and looks unfinished.

I like Callie. It's really bright and sunny sounding to me.

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I think it's too nicknamey to stand alone though. I like it as a nickname for Calanthia, Calanthe or Caroline.

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Kali is pretty but I pronounce it differently to Callie and it seems a little darker and more serious.

I like it as a nn for Calliope or Calanthe.

It's pretty cute and I think it can stand alone.
Kali, on the other hand, is a death goddess with a necklace of skulls, a skirt of arms and her tongue hanging out of her mouth, plus, she was worshiped by the Thuggee cult who strangled people.

This message was edited 4/13/2017, 5:01 AM

Callie definitely comes across as a diminutive. I don't think it stands alone.

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Cally/ie is sometimes short for Caroline, so I guess would work for Carolyn as well

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Or

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Calanthe
Calliope
Callista
Callisto
Calypso
Cara
Carla
Carlotta

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I think for a non Hindu to use Kali, it should definitely me a nickname or shortening of something else.

I know a Carolyn whose nn is Cal; when she was tiny she called herself Calloryn, which her family found delightful and the nn has stuck into adulthood.

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I don't think Callie ever featured, but it could have, and I can't imagine it as anything other than a nn. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does need something more substantial in reserve.

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Kali, the goddess of destruction? Or there's a link to Linux apparently, but I don't know from Linux myself. Either way, it's a definite No.

I love it but only as a nickname. My go-to full name for it is Calanthia, but other names that start with CAL would work.

Ordinarily I don't like nicknames as given first names, but I have a cousin named Callie so I guess I'm used to it as such? *shrug* It doesn't bother me as much at any rate.
Kali feels more 'trendy' even though I know that's no the source