Caia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Caia: Recorded since 1999, it reached #896 in 2018, and it stood at #898 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#896highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#3262
2003	#3594
2006	#5061
2007	#3218
2011	#2893
2012	#2969
2013	#2460
2014	#2314
2015	#2496
2016	#2367
2017	#2502
2018	#2090
2019	#2286
2020	#2449
2021	#2341
2022	#2888
2023	#3598
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 19 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2411 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2018–2024
Highest recorded position: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2018 (recorded 2018–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Caia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 158 births with the name.

Caia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Caia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#2090 (2018)	#2411 (2024)	19 of 26	158 (1999–2024)	13 (2018)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2018)	#896 (2018)	#898 (2024)	2 of 7	6 (2018–2024)	3 (2018)

Caia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Caia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	17	4 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	92	9 of 10	10
2020s	46	5 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Caia appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2018.

Caia'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	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2314	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1999 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #896, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2018, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Cahir · #105, 29y
Cai · #214, 29y
Caian · #2087, 15y
Caidan · #217, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Aphra · #896, 21y
Elisse · #896, 21y
Haylie · #896, 21y
Inka · #896, 19y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aphra · #896, 21y
Deryn · #896, 26y
Elisse · #896, 21y
Haylie · #896, 21y

Caia was ranked #896 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2018. 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.

Caia 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 Caia without appearing here.

Caia moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #5891.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2090 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2460 and #5742.

Moved ahead of Caia

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2314 and #1628.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1785.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #1939.
Noah Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #2201.

Moved the opposite way to Caia

Helene Compare
Between 1999 and 2018 in England and Wales · Girls, Caia went from #3900 to #2090 while Helene went from #2444 to #4684.

Moved the same way as Caia

Eabha Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Caia went from #5061 to #2411 and Eabha from #5061 to #1262.
Francis Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Caia went from #5061 to #2411 and Francis from #5061 to #2574.

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #896 in Republic of Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Caia

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Caia across 2 official records

Caia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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