Kallista
Kallista was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,818 among girls’ names; 896 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kallista by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kallista?
#5,818 among girls’ names, 2025
Kallista rose from #5,928 in 2015 to #5,818 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 13.1 per million.
59 babies in 2001, the peak
Kallista peaked in 2001, when 59 girls were given it, #2,577 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,818 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,227 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,719 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,772 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,245 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,189 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,400 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,942 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,635 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,369 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,928 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,142 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,068 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,032 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,744 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,871 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,198 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,587 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,519 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,513 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 45 | #3,379 | 24.4 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,975 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,494 | 22.4 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,544 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,577 | 32.8 |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,610 | 31.4 |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,653 | 29.9 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,781 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,382 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,000 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,263 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,848 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,333 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,276 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,033 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,309 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,138 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,963 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,732 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kallista a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kallista has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kallista: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kallista, and how old are they?
An estimated 886 Americans named Kallista and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 774 people named Kallista (774 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below 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 Kallista?
Kallista is a less common spelling of Calista: SSA has recorded 896 Kallista and 7,504 Calista since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,090 babies since 1880, Kallista is the fourth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 229 babies (9.2%), again the fourth 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 Kallista
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 Kallista and names like it
- Compare Kallista and CalistaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKallista peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kallista since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Kallista.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kallista alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.