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Kalysta

Girls' name

Variant of Calista

Kalysta has been given to 580 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2000, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Kalysta, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kalysta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Calista

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kalysta means

Kalysta is a variant of Calista.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kalysta is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kə.ˈlɪs.tə/ for Kalysta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kalysta → Calista. The family’s meaning is “most beautiful”, recorded in English with the source elements Kállistos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Calista.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 580 girls were recorded with the name Kalysta between 1985 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2000; its best national rank was #2,755 in 2000.

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 Kalysta?

Kalysta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kalysta 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalysta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kalystas were born

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

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
580
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Choose a decade

2000s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (318).

Is Kalysta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (53)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,755
2000

Spellings of Kalysta

Kalysta is not the most common spelling — Alyssa is, with 85.9% against Kalysta's 0.16%.

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 Kalysta is used

Across 1910–2025, Kalysta was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 368,009 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Kalysta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kalysta around the world

Where Kalysta 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
    1999–2025
    #2,512
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2017
    #2,633
    in 2017

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

Kalysta 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
#2,755
2000
Peak year
2000
53 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
580
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kalysta

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

KallistaKalistaKaleyahKalyssaKalilahKalyaniKaleesiKalianaKalissaKallystaKaleiahKalishaKaliopeKalisaKalleighKaloniKalayahKalleyKallynKaliannaKalleeKaleyaKaliannKalanie

Sibling names for Kalysta

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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