Calista

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Calista: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Calista: Recorded every year since 1998, it reached #871 in 2001, and it stood at #2,115 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#871highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3142
1999	#1018
2000	#1313
2001	#871
2002	#1442
2003	#1552
2004	#1836
2005	#2247
2006	#1862
2007	#1196
2008	#1641
2009	#2019
2010	#1815
2011	#2275
2012	#1893
2013	#4050
2014	#2314
2015	#2705
2016	#1571
2017	#2201
2018	#3178
2019	#3151
2020	#2843
2021	#2201
2022	#1948
2023	#1959
2024	#2115

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3142 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #871 among girls in England and Wales, in 2001 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2115 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Calista by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Calista in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	24	2 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	149	10 of 10	15
2010s	112	10 of 10	11
2020s	61	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Calista appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #871 in England and Wales in 2001.

Calista's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2115	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1948	14	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1196	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1836	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1552	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#871	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3142	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #871, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2001.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
27 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,115position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
26births registered in its largest year, 200125 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Calla · #418, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rosabella · #872, 24y
Hamaad · #869, 28y
Kenya · #869, 29y
Liora · #869, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Kiyah · #871, 27y
Maram · #871, 25y
Mei · #871, 29y
Rafaela · #871, 25y

Calista was ranked #871 in England and Wales · Girls in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Calista and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Calista without appearing here.

Calista moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #5581.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3142 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1018 and #3900.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.
Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4050 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Calista

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3178 and #1436.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #1286.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1939.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1571 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2201 and #1411.

Moved the opposite way to Calista

Blake Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1018 to #2115 while Blake went from #3900 to #432.
Frida Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1018 to #2115 while Frida went from #3900 to #811.
Meabh Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1018 to #2115 while Meabh went from #3225 to #952.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #871 to #2115 while Harper went from #3262 to #22.

Moved the same way as Calista

Hayden Compare
Between 2000 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1313 to #2115 and Hayden from #3912 to #5891.
Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1442 to #2115 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.
Karin Compare
Between 1999 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1018 to #2201 and Karin from #1557 to #3192.
Teddy Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Calista went from #1442 to #2115 and Teddy from #4137 to #5891.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #871 in England and Wales in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Calista

Calista at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Calista by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Calista appears in

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Calista at a glance

Calista by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Calista appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Calista

Calista and the names beside it

Calista moved ahead of

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