Kalista
Fewer than 20 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met a Kalista. The name comes from Greek, where it meant the fairest of all.
Kalista Pronunciation
Kalista is pronounced kah-LEES-tah (/kaˈlista/).
What Kalista means
Where Kalista comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kalista comes from Greek. It grows out of the superlative kallistos, most beautiful, itself built on kallos, the word for beauty. A plain adjective would call a person beautiful. This form climbs to the top of that scale and stays there.
The sense sits close to the surface. In Polish the name reads as najpiękniejsza, the most beautiful one. A child named Kalista can learn what it says about as soon as she can spell it.
The origin is honest Greek. On a school register between Karolina and Katarzyna, the name keeps its own shape, longer at the root and older in meaning. Whatever else it gathers over a life, the word underneath stays kallos, beauty.
When Kalista celebrates name day
Kalista appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 19 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kalista
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Kalista. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10699 among female names.
Kalista as a middle name
Kalista is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3675th, between Kaliopi (5) and Kalliopi (5).
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#3673 Kadija5
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#3674 Kaliopi5
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#3675 Kalista5
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#3676 Kalliopi5
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#3677 Kamala5