How rare is the name Calista?

6,028 people in the United States have the first name Calista, about 1 in 50,105. It ranks #3,448 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CALISTA

#3,448

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
6,028
About
1 in 50,105
This common or more
82.4%
Who bears it

Of the 6,028 people named Calista, 64.9% reported their origin as White, 16.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Calista peaked in 1999, when 490 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18942025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
490
In 2025*
131 ▼73%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,504 babies have been given the name since 1894. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Calista by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,631. The largest share of babies named Calista, 56.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1890s#2,57031
1900s#3,25328
1910s#3,550128
1920s#4,961113
1930s#5,19283
1940s#5,49685
1950s#6,25388
1960s#6,108111
1970s#5,040220
1980s#4,734310
1990s#2,5901,056
2000s#1,6312,733
2010s#2,4021,764
2020s#3,050754
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–273.3%
Silent Generation 1928–451.9%
Baby boom 1946–642.4%
Generation X 1965–804.2%
Millennials 1981–966.3%
Generation Z 1997–1256.4%
2013 and later25%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Calista is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Calista has been most common in Arizona (3.6×), California (2.1×), and Washington (2×), and least common in Missouri (0.35×).

4,566 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Calista

#3,446 Dereck · 6,033#3,446 Lakesha · 6,033#3,449 Tre · 6,026#3,450 Cris · 6,025

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Calista, most common first.

#7,254 Callista · 2,121#8,568 Calixto · 1,689#21,290 Calysta · 478#28,616 Calixta · 313#42,918 Calistro · 166#44,846 Calixte · 153#48,513 Calisto · 131

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