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Kalista

#4,115 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kalista has been given to 2,419 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,115 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 182 recorded.

Babies named Kalista, 2025

1 in 94,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalista: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalista means

Kalista is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kalista is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,419 girls were recorded with the name Kalista between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 182 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,095 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,714 in 2020 to #4,115 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,867 in 2015 to #4,115 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 Kalista?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 45,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,115
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalista 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 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalistas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalista was born before 2006 — so the typical Kalista is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,419
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (1,107).

Is Kalista 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
−328
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−401
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,248
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 1999 (182)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,095
1999

Spellings of Kalista

Kalista is not the most common spelling — Krista is, with 24.2% against Kalista's 0.79%.

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 Kalista is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalista was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 125,733 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nevada1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Kalista has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalista around the world

Where Kalista 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
    2003–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2025
    #3,241
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2023
    #1,916
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2001–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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.

Kalista in other languages

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

CalistaKalikstaKalliszta

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

Kalista by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,115
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 401
Best rank ever
#1,095
1999
Peak year
1999
182 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,419
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Kalista

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

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Names with a curve like Kalista

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

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Sibling names for Kalista

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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