Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Callisto
“the best, the most beautiful”
Callisto is used as a given name and a surname. Callisto is connected with Kallisto.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Callisto goes back to Latin Callisto, meaning “the best, the most beautiful.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Late Latin and Greek naming traditions.
How it developed
Callisto is used as a form of Kallisto.
The story
The name’s historical associations include several early saints, including a 3rd-century pope and a 6th-century bishop of Todi in central Italy.
Callisto through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 102
- 25 boys · 77 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +18%
- Rising
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 121 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Callisto’s family of names
Callisto shares a linguistic root with Calisto. Callisto has a related form in Calista. Callisto has a related form in Callista.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Calistavariant
- Callistavariant
- Callystavariant
- Calystavariant
- Calistovariant
- Calleastovariant
- Calleistovariant
- Calleestovariant
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Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Calixtoequivalent
- Καλλιστώequivalent
- KalikstPolish
- Callistusequivalent
- Calixtequivalent
- Calixtheequivalent
- Calixteequivalent
- Kallistosequivalent
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People named Callisto
- Callistus I of ConstantinoplePatriarch of Constantinople1300–1363
- Callistus CaravarioItalian Roman Catholic missionary and saint (1903–1930)
- Callisto PasuwaMalawian association football playerborn 1970
- Callisto GuatelliItalian conductor and composer (1819-1900)
- Callisto PiazzaItalian painter (1500-1561)
- Callisto CosulichItalian screenwriter and film critic (1922–2015)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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