Kalista
Kalista was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,115 among girls’ names; 2,419 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Kalista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kalista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kalista mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kalista is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kalista?
#4,115 among girls’ names, 2025
Kalista fell from #2,867 in 2015 to #4,115 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 21.8 per million.
182 babies in 1999, the peak
Kalista peaked in 1999, when 182 girls were given it, #1,095 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,115 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,787 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,014 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,247 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,710 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,714 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,833 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,960 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,174 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,256 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,867 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,021 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,356 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,366 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,267 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,952 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,518 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,067 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,045 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,258 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 109 | #1,794 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 108 | #1,773 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 133 | #1,470 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,412 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,576 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,318 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 182 | #1,095 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 75 | #1,995 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,316 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,640 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,304 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,170 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,415 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,134 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,192 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,722 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,194 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,756 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,090 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,298 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,415 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,705 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,546 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,255 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,588 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kalista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kalista has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kalista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kalista, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,419 Americans ever recorded as Kalista. The median Kalista alive today is 20 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,987 people named Kalista (1,981 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 157 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 584 |
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 Kalista born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,102 | 0.8× |
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 Kalista 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,436 babies since 1880, Kalista is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 229 babies (15%), again the third 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 Kalista
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 Kalista and names like it
- Compare Kalista and CalistaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKalista peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kalista since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Kalista.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kalista alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.