Caileigh

femaleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
7times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#258highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#2701
2000	#2746
2010	#5707

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 4 of the 15 years from 1996 to 2010.

In 2010: #258 among girls in Northern Ireland, #5707 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2017
Highest recorded position: #258 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2010 (recorded 2008–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #432 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017.
Northern Ireland · Girls

Caileigh appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 4 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 16 births with the name.

Caileigh 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.

Caileigh'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	#3795 (1996)	#2701 (1998)	#5707 (2010)	4 of 15	16 (1996–2010)	5 (1998)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#439 (2008)	#258 (2010)	#432 (2017)	3 of 10	13 (2008–2017)	7 (2010)

Caileigh 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 Caileigh in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	8	2 of 10	4
2000s	5	1 of 10	5
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #258 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Caileigh'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
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#258	7	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

Where Caileigh is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Caileigh, between 1996 and 2017, in 6 of those 22 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2010	4	#2701 in 1998
Northern Ireland	2008–2017	3	#258 in 2010

Its high point came 12 years earlier in England and Wales (1998) than in Northern Ireland (2010).

No registrar recorded it for 7 years after 2000; it appears again in 2008.

Caileigh was ranked #258 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2010. 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.

Amanda#258
Andrea#258
Bonnie#258
Clare#258
Aaliyah#283
Abbi#283
Aideen#283
Alicja#283

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #258 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Caileigh

Caileigh at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Caileigh across 2 official records

Caileigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Popularity data

Where Caileigh is officially recorded

Names published alongside Caileigh

Caileigh at a glance

Caileigh across 2 official records

Caileigh by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Names published alongside Caileigh