Callista
Callista was given to 42 girls in 2025, #3,584 among girls’ names; 2,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,380 Americans named Callista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Callista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Callista?
#3,584 among girls’ names, 2025
Callista fell from #2,971 in 2015 to #3,584 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 32.5 to 26.1 per million.
137 babies in 1999, the peak
Callista peaked in 1999, when 137 girls were given it, #1,314 among girls’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,584 | 26.1 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,907 | 23.5 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,667 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,374 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,558 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,098 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 51 | #3,134 | 30.4 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,689 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,442 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,675 | 36.7 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,971 | 32.5 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,932 | 32.5 |
| 2013 | 55 | #3,011 | 31.3 |
| 2012 | 78 | #2,380 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,801 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,083 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,469 | 41.9 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,489 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,299 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 77 | #2,424 | 40.5 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,205 | 44.9 |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,100 | 46.8 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,653 | 63.5 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,897 | 51.8 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,804 | 54.4 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,587 | 61.1 |
| 1999 | 137 | #1,314 | 77.2 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,566 | 59.4 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,039 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,844 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,363 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,705 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,233 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,583 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,202 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,130 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,373 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,331 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,109 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,283 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,483 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,083 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,497 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,739 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,557 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,965 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,460 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,607 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,813 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,281 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,235 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,571 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,910 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,194 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,171 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,049 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,285 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,531 | 3.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,961 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,371 | 5.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,455 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,118 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,547 | 4.9 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,930 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,715 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,989 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,929 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,932 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Callista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Callista has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Callista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Callista, and how old are they?
2,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,485 Americans ever recorded as Callista. The median Callista alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,121 people named Callista (2,119 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,360 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 619 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Callista born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,996 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Callista with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,009 babies since 1880, Callista is the second most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 229 babies (18%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Callista
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Callista and names like it
- Compare Callista and CalistaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCallista peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Callista since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Callista.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Callista alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.