Callista
2025 SSA
About Callista
Calista Flockhart spotlighted this lovely Greek name that has a long future in the English-speaking world. Kallista is another spelling; Calixta and Calixto are related.
Pronounced kuh-LIS-tuh.
As of October 2026, Callista ranked #3585 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1316 in 1999.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,934 | 58 | 32.5 |
| 2015 | #2,971 | 58 | 32.5 |
| 2016 | #2,675 | 65 | 36.7 |
| 2017 | #3,443 | 45 | 26.1 |
| 2018 | #3,688 | 41 | 24.1 |
| 2019 | #3,134 | 51 | 30.4 |
| 2020 | #3,095 | 51 | 31.5 |
| 2021 | #3,557 | 43 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | #3,374 | 47 | 28.7 |
| 2023 | #4,667 | 29 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | #3,889 | 38 | 23.5 |
| 2025 | #3,585 | 42 | 26.1 |
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Callista on lists
Famous Callistas
- Callista Louise Gingrich
U.S. ambassador; wife of politician Newt Gingrich
- Callista Chapola
Chimombo, former First Lady of Malawi as wife of President Bingu wa Mutharika
- Callista Lorraine Roy
American nursing theorist
Callista in pop culture
- "Callista
" novel by John Henry Newman and its main character
- Callista Lanart
character in the "Darkover" series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Callista Ming
a character in the "Star Wars Legends" series
- Callista "Cally" Henderson Tyrol aka Callandra
character in the "Battlestar Galactica" series
- Callista
character in animated series "SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron"
- Callista
a main character in video game "The Last Story"
- Callista Curnow
Character from Dishonored, the niece of Captain Geoff Curnow