Name meaning & stats
Calista
Calista means “most beautiful” (Latin origin). 7,121 US babies since 1940, peak 1999.
What it means
“most beautiful”
LatinWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1999
7,121 US babies were named Calista between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Calista (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 51% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1999)