Calysta
Calysta was last recorded in 2022, when 9 babies were given it; 499 Americans have been recorded with it between 1985 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calysta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calysta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,546, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1999, the peak
Calysta peaked in 1999, when 58 girls were given it, #2,475 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9 | #10,546 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,804 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,773 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,628 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,120 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,924 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,066 | 7.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,332 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,827 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,212 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #9,850 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,812 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,745 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,809 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,656 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,812 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,470 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,010 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,809 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,819 | 18.9 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,871 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,073 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,475 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,580 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,324 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,751 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,640 | 3.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,812 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,545 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,454 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Calysta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calysta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calysta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calysta, and how old are they?
An estimated 493 Americans named Calysta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Calysta (478 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 475 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Calysta?
Calysta is a less common spelling of Calista: SSA has recorded 499 Calysta and 7,504 Calista since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,591 babies since 1880, Calysta is the fifth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 208 babies recorded by SSA was a Calysta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Calysta
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 Calysta and names like it
- Compare Calysta and CalistaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCalysta peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calysta since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Calysta.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Calysta alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.