Entry № 5159 · Greek origin

Kallisto Kallisto — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LIS-toh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Most beautiful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "most beautiful".

Kallisto means most beautiful; the nymph of that name was set among the stars as the Great Bear.

Radiant and celestial, it links earthly beauty to the night sky.

Most beautiful — a name from Greek myth.

The name in its native script.

Kallisto
Transliteration
Kallisto
Pronunciation
/ kaˈlis.to /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kallisto stands.

Kallisto does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Kallistos before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Kallisto.

The number behind Kallisto.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kallisto reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.