Cailum

maleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#271highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2012

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1998	#2901
1999	#2425
2000	#2142
2001	#3134
2002	#3225
2003	#2857
2005	#3849
2006	#4052
2008	#3158
2009	#4527
2010	#3865
2012	#4805

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Northern Ireland in 6 of the 25 years from 1997 to 2021.

In 2021: #374 among boys in Northern Ireland, #755 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2021
Highest recorded position: #271 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2021).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #374 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2021.
Northern Ireland · Boys

Cailum appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 47 births with the name.

Cailum across 3 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.

Cailum'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
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#271 (1997)	#374 (2021)	6 of 25	20 (1997–2021)	4 (2010)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#290 (1999)	#290 (1999)	#755 (2021)	11 of 23	43 (1999–2021)	6 (2004)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#2142 (2000)	#4805 (2012)	13 of 17	47 (1996–2012)	5 (2000)

Cailum by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Cailum in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	29	8 of 10	4
2010s	7	2 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #271 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Cailum'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
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#374	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#435	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#351	6	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	5	High	Verified

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

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

Where Cailum is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Cailum, between 1996 and 2021, in 19 of those 26 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	1996–2012	13	#2142 in 2000
Northern Ireland	1997–2021	6	#271 in 1997
Republic of Ireland	1999–2021	11	#290 in 1999

No registrar recorded it for 3 years after 2015; it appears again in 2019.

Cailum was ranked #271 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1997. 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.

Aedan#271
Aiden#271
Alister#271
Antoin#271

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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #271 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Cailum

Cailum at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cailum across 3 official records

Cailum by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Cailum is officially recorded

Names published alongside Cailum

Cailum at a glance

Cailum across 3 official records

Cailum by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Cailum