How Many People Are Named Callista?
people named Callista are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 143,486 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,485 babies named Callista in Social Security records from 1914 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
137 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CALISTA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Callista in English. Counting Callista and these spellings together, about 9,953 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Callista in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Callista alive today is about 21 years old, and 84% are under 30. Half of them were between 12 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Callista first appears in the records in 1914 and was given most often in 1999, to 137 babies. In 2025, 42 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1914 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Callista has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,314, in 1999. In 2025 it ranked #3,584.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #3,584 |
| Best rank | #1,314 (1999) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,093 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Callista alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Callista were born in California than in any other state: about 221 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Callista was given 2.3 times as often in California and 1.5 times in Texas.
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