Meaning not yet researched.
Calista: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 131 in 2025. Its best rank was #519 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #519 in 1999; #1,597 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Calista in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,597 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #519.
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Calista: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 131 girls in 2025. Peak: #519 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 490 (1999).
In 2025, 131 US girls were named Calista, making it the 1,597th most common girls’ name of the year, down 144 places from #1,453 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 151 girls named Calista in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #519, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 490. For comparison, it was #1,372 in 2015 and #3,997 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Calista in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 7 babies. In all, 7,504 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,733 babies named Calista.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,380 US girls were named Calista; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,269 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Calista ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #833 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Callista (2,485 babies since 1880) and Kalista (2,419 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kallista, Kalysta and Calysta are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kissy.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Greek. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kallista (896), Kalysta (580), Calysta (499), Callysta (51).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 7 | #833 | #713 |
| California | 27 | #1,003 | #1,174 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,046 | #1,079 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,217 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,274 | #1,313 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,400 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,495 | #1,004 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,573 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,995 | #1,552 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 131 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2024 | 151 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 2023 | 120 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2022 | 114 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 2017 | 149 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 2015 | 172 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2014 | 155 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2013 | 170 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 2012 | 196 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2011 | 210 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2010 | 235 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2008 | 207 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 2007 | 264 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2006 | 231 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2005 | 223 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 2004 | 282 | #870 | — | — |
| 2003 | 271 | #889 | — | — |
| 2002 | 305 | #775 | — | — |
| 2001 | 358 | #697 | — | — |
| 2000 | 401 | #627 | — | — |
| 1999 | 490 | #519 | — | — |
| 1998 | 323 | #697 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,076 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,136 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,180 | — | — |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,170 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1984 | 32 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,997 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,693 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,801 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,818 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,910 | — | — |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,910 | — | — |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,483 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,553 | — | — |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,207 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,637 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,304 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,035 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,173 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,806 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,260 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,914 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,252 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).