Callistus
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Callistus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- NGNigeria1 in 42K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 174K
- ARArgentina1 in 319K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 97 ●
- 1 in 44K ◐
across 4 countries
22K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Calisto in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PE Peru and 15 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 2,142 | 4.2K rec. | — | 447 | Calisto | 33 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 1,742 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Callistus | 47 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,220 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 174K | 1.8K | Calisto | 89 |
| PE Peru | — | 877 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Calisto | 29 |
| CL Chile | — | 761 | 658 rec. | — | 1 | Calisto | 46 |
| MX Mexico | — | 300 | 401 rec. | — | — | Calisto | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 276 | 356 rec. | — | — | Calisto | 9 |
| KE Kenya | — | 194 | 63 rec. | — | — | Callistus | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 137 | 368 rec. | — | listed | Callistus | 24 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 124 | 186 rec. | — | — | Calisto | 7 |
| US United States | — | 107 | 3.3K rec. | 1 in 3.1M | 360 | Callistus | 97 |
| AU Australia | — | 100 | 157 rec. | — | 1 | Callistus | 20 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2K51%
- Swahili1.1K30%
- 762%
- Spanish712%
- Indonesian702%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,959 | 51% |
| Swahili | 1,133 | 30% |
| 76 | 2% | |
| Spanish | 71 | 2% |
| Indonesian | 70 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Callistus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, gr. 'the most beautiful'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, genitive singular of Callistō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Callistus of Sideb. 100TROlympic runner
- Callixtus IIb. 1065FRnot in their usual namePope from 1119 to 1124
- Callistus II of Constantinopleb. 1301TRPatriarch of Constantinople
- Kallistos Angelikoudēsb. 1325BGnot in their usual name14th-century Orthodox Christian clergyman, writer, and hesychast
- Callixtus IIIb. 1379ESnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family
- Kalist Ambrušb. 1783HUnot in their usual nameHungarian writer
- Callistus Rubaramirab. 1950UGUgandan Roman Catholic bishop
- Callistus Eziukwub. 1985USAmerican basketball player
- Callistus Chukwub. 1990NGNigerian footballer
- Callixtus IITnot in their usual nameBishop of Rome from c. 218 to c. 223
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Callistus?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Callistus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Callistus have the most bearers?
- Callistus is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled calisto.
- How common is Callistus compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Callistus is the 108th most common given name of 1,105 given names recorded there.
- Is Callistus a male or female name?
- Callistus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Callistus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Callistus” — the 108th most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.