Kallista
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ka-LIS-ta
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #5,721 for girls
Kallista is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “most beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 5,721st for girls in the US (21 babies).
What does Kallista mean?
Greek: spelling of Calista; from Greek kalliste
“most beautiful”
Kallisto, a nymph of Greek myth, was turned into a bear and placed among the stars as Ursa Major.
Meaning borrowed from Calista. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kallista a girl's or a boy's name?
Kallista is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 21 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kallista in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,721st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 21 about 1 in 77,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 21 girls in the US were named Kallista, making it the 5,721st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 59 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.
2025 had more girls named Kallista than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Kallista in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 229 girls in the US were given Kallista or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #975, up from #5,721 for this spelling alone.
Kallista in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,721 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,079 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,831 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,955 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,769 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,549 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,474 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,462 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,362 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,961 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,468 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,519 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,567 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,589 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,637 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,753 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,036 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
Nicknames for Kallista
- Callie 359 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Kallista
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Camila, Elina, Melina, Isabella, Sophia, Selena, Genesis, Alina, Akira, Chloe, Alexa, Alessia
Other spellings of Kallista
Names related to Kallista
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Sophie, Zoe, Iris, Maisie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kallista: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kallista, updated 20 October 2026.