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Callista

#3,584 in 2025Girls' name

A moon of Jupiter

Callista has been given to 2,485 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,584 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Callista, 2025

1 in 78,900

Callista over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Callista: meaning, origin, and history

A moon of Jupiter

Ancient Greek and Italian

What Callista means

Callista means “a moon of Jupiter”, associated with Callisto.

Origin, language, and formation

Callista is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Italian.

Callista comes through Ancient Greek καλλίστη and Ancient Greek Καλλιστώ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Callista is pronounced /ˈkalista/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,485 girls were recorded with the name Callista between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,314 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,098 in 2020 to #3,584 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,971 in 2015 to #3,584 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Callista?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 38,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,584
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Callista 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 2025 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Callista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Callistas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Callista was born before 2004 — so the typical Callista is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,416
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (901).

Is Callista 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
+323
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−486
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−613
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.7%
Peak was 1999 (137)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,314
1999

Spellings of Callista

Callista is not the most common spelling — Calista is, with 33.0% against Callista's 10.9%.

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.

Where Callista is used

Across 1910–2025, Callista was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 169,344 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Callista has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Callista around the world

Where Callista 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.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2024
    #7,551
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Callista

People whose public names include Callista, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Callista in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Callista. Linked forms have their own page here.

CalistaCallisto

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Callista by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,584
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 486
Best rank ever
#1,314
1999
Peak year
1999
137 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,485
Count in 2025
42

Names similar to Callista

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

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Names with a curve like Callista

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Callista, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Callista

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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