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How popular is the name Calista?
Births per year, rank history and how many Calistas are alive today.
Calista (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1892nd in 2025 and given to 15 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2001, when 26 babies were given the name, the 871st most popular that year. Calista is one spelling of a name also recorded as Callista; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Calista you are most likely to meet is around 26 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Calistas born in England and Wales are between 7 and 23, and there are at least 540 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Calista - on average, only one in every 584 such rooms contains a Calista.
How many babies are named Calista each year?
Includes all spellings: Calista, Callista. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Calista spelling rank?
Where does the Callista spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Calista most popular?
Calista peaked in 2001, when 29 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Calista?
At least 540 people named Calista in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Calista?
Most living Calistas are between 7 and 23; the most common age is about 26. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Calista becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.