Cahan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cahan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cahan: Recorded since 2012, it reached #274 in 2019, and it stood at #305 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
11times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#274highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Northern Ireland · Boys

Rising

among boys in Northern Ireland · 2012–2024

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Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2012	#403
2013	#343
2016	#358
2017	#363
2018	#319
2019	#274
2020	#334
2021	#433
2022	#311
2023	#312
2024	#305

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

RisingNorthern Ireland · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Northern Ireland in 11 of the 13 years from 2012 to 2024.

Official data for Northern Ireland, 2012–2024 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2012
First recorded at #403 among boys in Northern Ireland in 2012 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Northern Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2024
Highest recorded position: #274 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2019 (recorded 2012–2024).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2024.
Northern Ireland · Boys

Cahan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #274 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Cahan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#311	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#274	6	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#319	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#363	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#343	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified

Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2012 and 2024, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #274, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 6 births, registered in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#305position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
6births registered in its largest year, 2019Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Cahir · #105, 29y
Cai · #214, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Crona · #276, 11y
Shiela · #282, 12y
Edit · #283, 13y
Sean Og · #283, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Koah · #266, 10y
Zaviyar · #287, 15y
Ariyah · #288, 15y
Aubree · #248, 15y

Cahan was ranked #274 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cahan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cahan without appearing here.

Cahan moved ahead of

Dean Compare
In 2021 they stood at #433 and #326 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #311 and #414.
Ross Compare
In 2021 they stood at #433 and #433 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #311 and #414.
Steven Compare
In 2021 they stood at #433 and #295 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #311 and #414.
Bradley Compare
In 2023 they stood at #311 and #264 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #305 and #404.

Moved ahead of Cahan

Hudson Compare
In 2015 they stood at #343 and #398 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2016 that had become #358 and #253.
Alfred Compare
In 2022 they stood at #311 and #414 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #312 and #272.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for Northern Ireland from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #274 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Cahan

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