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Calixta

Girls' name

Feminine form of Calixtus

Calixta has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 2000. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Calixta, 2024

1 in 669,000

Calixta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Calixta: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Calixtus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Calixta means

Calixta is a feminine form of Calixtus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Calixta is used in Spanish and Portuguese (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ka.ˈliks.ta/ for Calixta.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Calixtus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 girls were recorded with the name Calixta between 2000 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2021; its best national rank was #11,311 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Calixta?

Calixta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Calixta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Calixta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Calixtas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Calixta was born before 2014 — so the typical Calixta is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
56
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Choose a decade

2020s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Calixta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (8)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,311
2021

Spellings of Calixta

Calixta is not the most common spelling — Calista is, with 33.7% against Calixta's 0.25%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Calixta around the world

Where Calixta ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2011–2011
    #4,552
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Calixta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,311
2021
Peak year
2021
8 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Calixta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Calixta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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