Meaning not yet researched.
Kalista: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,097 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,097 in 1999; #4,116 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kalista in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,116 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,097.
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Kalista: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,097 in 1999 · most girls in one year: 182 (1999).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Kalista, making it the 4,116th most common girls’ name of the year, down 329 places from #3,787 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 40 girls named Kalista in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,097, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #2,867 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kalista in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 6 babies. In all, 2,419 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,107 babies named Kalista.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 393 US girls were named Kalista; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Calista (7,504 babies since 1880) and Callista (2,485 babies since 1880).
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 Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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.
No nicknames listed for Kalista in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,787 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,016 | — | — |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,249 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,174 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1999 | 182 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,998 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,321 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,309 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,176 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,140 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,199 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,728 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,200 | — | — |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,761 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,301 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,662 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,417 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,739 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,706 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,547 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,257 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,305 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,590 | — | — |
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).