Calisto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Callisto (satellite of Jupiter)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kalisto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Calisto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 3rd most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 23K
- ARArgentina1 in 102K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Callisto (satellite of Jupiter)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Calisto is read(measured from records)
Calisto 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.
- Spanish43%
Callisto (satellite of Jupiter)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Calisto in Portuguese.
- English7.3%
Greek: most beautiful
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Calisto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #910 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1.8K | Calisto | 93 |
| MZ Mozambique | #3 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 1 | Calisto | 23 |
| CL Chile | #730 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Calisto | 51 |
| PT Portugal | #631 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | listed | Calisto | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Calisto | 14 |
| AR Argentina | — | 447 | 1 in 102K | 447 | Calisto | 34 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 65 | 1 in 52K | 65 | Calisto | 10 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Calisto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, Callisto (large moon of Jupiter)
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(measured from records)
- Nicolás Joaquín de Arteta y Calistob. 1771ECroman-catholic archbishop (1771-1849)
- Pedro José de Arteta y Calistob. 1797ECActing President of Ecuador (1867 - 1868)
- Carmen Calistob. 1942EC36th First Lady of Ecuador (1988-1992)
- Adolfo Calistob. 1944PTPortuguese footballer (1944–2024)
- Arturo Cavero Calistob. 1950PEPeruvian politician
- Manuel Calistob. 1968ECEcuadorian actor
- Vicente Calistob. 1998CLChilean computer scientist
- Vânia CalistoPTPortuguese environmental chemist
- Maria CalistoPTgymnast
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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30K | #609 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 447 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 65 | — |
| MZ Mozambique | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #84 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Calisto mean, and where does it come from?
- Callisto (satellite of Jupiter) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Calisto?
- A machine transcription gives /kalisto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Calisto?
- In the etymology graph, Calixto and Calixte are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Calisto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Calisto in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled calisto.
- How common is the name Calisto?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 447 people named Calisto, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Calisto compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Calisto is the 910th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/calistoThe 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, “Calisto” — the 910th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.