Kallista is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kallista in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kallista in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kallista by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kallista ranks at #5,778. That means there are 5,777 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kallista.
In fact, the name Kallista did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Kallista seemed to be more popular than ever in 2001. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,384, 59 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kallista, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kallista was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Kallista a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #7,418 - with a total of 12 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Kallista in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 129 women and girls named Kallista, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 129 women and girls named Kallista live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan and New York. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Kallista. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Kallista lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kallista and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Kallista relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 286,787 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kallista.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Kallista 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 if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kallista 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 Kallista, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Lion
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kallista
Kallista
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
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.
K
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. Kallista sounds like this:
