Callista is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Callista is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Callista. In the SmartGenius ranking, Callista is #2,725 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Callista.
In fact, the name Callista hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Callista wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1999, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,229, 137 parents chose it in 1999 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Callista, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Callista was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Callista a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 2,984, for a total of 47 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Callista seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Callista are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Callista in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Callista live in California – here, one in 66,874 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 232,537 will turn around if you call her first name Callista.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Callista is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Callista and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Callista, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Callista
Callista
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
L
L
I
S
T
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
L
L
I
S
T
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Callista sounds like this:
