Callisto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A nymph of Artemis
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kʰaʎɪstəw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Callisto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 162K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 260K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A nymph of Artemis.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Callisto is read(measured from records)
Callisto is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English67%
A nymph of Artemis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
nymph loved by Zeus; satellite of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Jupiter
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Callisto in Spanish.
- Italian5.1%
Dal greco, «bellissimo»; nome di papa e martire, S. Callisto.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
I n greco, bellissiino. Dci cinque Santi di questo nome il più venerato è S. Callisto, Papa e martire, 2'72. 14 ottobre.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
forma ital. de Callistus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Callisto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Callisto | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 284K | 1 | Callisto | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Callisto | 13 |
| US United States | 128 | 1 in 2.6M | 128 | Callisto | 115 |
| AU Australia | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Callisto | 49 |
| RS Serbia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Callisto | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Callistus I of Constantinopleb. 1300TRnot in their usual namePatriarch of Constantinople
- Callisto Piazzab. 1500ITItalian painter (1500-1561)
- Giovanni Zanottib. 1738ITnot in their usual nameItalian composer
- Callisto Guatellib. 1819ITItalian conductor and composer (1819-1900)
- Callisto Caravariob. 1903ITItalian Roman Catholic missionary and saint (1903–1930)
- Callisto Carpaneseb. 1917ITItalian priest and librarian (1917-1999)
- Callisto Cosulichb. 1922ITItalian screenwriter and film critic (1922–2015)
- Callisto Enias Madavob. 1942ZWZimbabwean economist at World Bank (1942-2017)
- Andrew Cane Chilapondwab. 1970ZWnot in their usual nameMalawian association football player
- Callisto Mc Nultyb. 1990FRfilmmaker (born 1990)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 128 | #132,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Callisto mean, and where does it come from?
- A nymph of Artemis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Callisto?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰaʎɪstəw/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Callisto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Callisto in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled callisto.
- How common is the name Callisto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 128 people named Callisto in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/callistoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Callisto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.