Calysta

A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning most beautiful or loveliest.

Babies a year
14
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Calysta by the numbers

Calysta was given to 14 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 58 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Calysta. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Calistamost beautiful148 in the US (2017)
  • Calyssa5 in the US (2017)
  • Callistamost beautiful; a form of Callisto10 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Calissamost beautiful; a form of Calista20 in the US (2017)
  • Crystaclear ice; a form of Crystal

Sounds like Calysta

Names that are said the same way as Calysta, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Kalistamost beautiful; from kallos and superlative suffix50 in the US (2017)
  • Kallistamost beautiful; a form of Callista15 in the US (2017)
  • Kalystamost beautiful; a form of Callista14 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean beauty

Like Calysta, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
  • Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
  • Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
  • Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
  • Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Calysta

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