Comments on: Name of the Day: Calista

By: Alphabet: C is for Girls | Appellation Mountain

Alphabet: C is for Girls | Appellation Mountain — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:51:15 +0000

[...] She’s a nymph, she’s a moon and on television, she’s Xena’s arch nemesis. Calista Flockhart brought a variant of this name into the spotlight and into the Top 1000. (Ally McBeal [...]

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:31:04 +0000

I love Sonnet in the middle spot. (In the first spot, I’d fear it would be shortened to Sonny – not my style.) I’m not big on hyphens, at least not when they create a five syllable given name. But Calista Sonnet as a combo is lovely!

By: Sara-Aria

Sara-Aria — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:31:52 +0000

I actually have a middle name to go with Callista (I prefer this form of the name). What do you think of Callista-Sonnet? You could use it as part of her first name, just hyphenated like I just did, or you could get rid of the hyphen and use Sonnet as the middle name. Either way it’s up to you. Personally I think Callista-Sonnet is classy without being pretentious, and just beautiful. For a name as lovely as Callista, it needs an equally lovely name to follow it. And something as mundane as claire or rose just doesn’t quite cut it. Besides “filler” names tend to be severely lacking. I tend to veer towards originality.

By: SophieGray

SophieGray — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:59:14 +0000

I want to like Calista – I love her sound and she is rather snappy, but to me, she feels a little ‘two-dimensional’ or shallow. Know what I mean? I don’t know how to explain it – she just feels a little ‘blank’, like there’s no depth behind her. I don’t know

Still, I’d be charmed to see her on another little girl.

By: chaneltara

chaneltara — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:20:34 +0000

Calista is nice, but seems so flighty for me. I don’t think I would use it. I actually really like Calixta though. The X grounds it down. I love x’s though. (Beatrix, Calixta, Felix!)

By: Laney McDonald

Laney McDonald — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:30:53 +0000

Kat, I love Calla too. Unfortunately my dear boyfriend isn’t crazy about it. He’d rather name her Calista and use Calla as a nickname.

By: Laney McDonald

Laney McDonald — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:26:39 +0000

Love Calista! Greek names are awesome, and this is one of my favorite names. I’d totally use it for a little girl if I can get my and Eric’s parents and grandparents to warm up to it. They are very old fashioned people so they want names like Charlotte (which I hate) or Emma, and we know several of those. lol

Calista is a beautiful, classy name. Still working on middle names.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:10:15 +0000

I like Calista, but I like Calla much better. Calla was kiboshed early by my husband AND mother in law, saying that it sounded like half a name, but I love its simplicity and grace. Maybe I can make another bid for it before its too late.

I think what makes me hesitate on Calista is the -ista ending. Makes me think of “fashionista” or something. It’s also a suffix often used in Spanish, which takes away the Greek feel for me.

By: Sarah M

Sarah M — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:28:40 +0000

I’ve had some people recommend this name to me on message boards (Lola, was that you? LOL). I think I would enjoy this name on someone else’s lil girl. Saying the name aloud, it has a tinkly bell sound to it whenever I say it. It gives me the same feeling as when I say “castanets”. I tend to avoid names with actress associations, just because I don’t want everyone to say, “oh, you mean like the actress?”

By: JNE

JNE — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:45:32 +0000

I like, but don’t love Calista. It is a nice enough name, but much like Kate, it doesn’t get me all revved up. When I was younger… like back in grade school, I had a thing for “C” names and really loved many (although, I can’t say that Calista was one of them). Now, C-starters float my boat much less often – there are still a few that have spark for me, but Calista is not one of them. Still, I do like it… just not loving it.