Calem

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Calem: 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
15times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#303highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2011

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1337
1998	#1821
1999	#2425
2000	#1889
2001	#1949
2003	#3467
2004	#3651
2006	#4052
2007	#3589
2009	#4527
2011	#3830

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 Republic of Ireland in 4 of the 26 years from 1997 to 2022.

In 2006: #493 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #4052 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2022 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1337 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 recorded1997–2022
Highest recorded position: #303 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2022
Most recently recorded at #657 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2022.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Calem appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 51 births with the name.

Calem 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.

Calem'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
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#303 (1997)	#303 (1997)	#657 (2022)	4 of 26	16 (1997–2022)	5 (1997)
England and Wales · Boys	#1337 (1996)	#1337 (1996)	#3830 (2011)	11 of 16	51 (1996–2011)	9 (1996)

Calem 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 Calem in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	3 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	28	7 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 4 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2022. Highest recorded position: #303 in Republic of Ireland in 1997.

Calem'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
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1337	9	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#379	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	5	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.

Where Calem is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Calem, between 1996 and 2022, in 13 of those 27 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.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2011	11	#1337 in 1996
Republic of Ireland	1997–2022	4	#303 in 1997

No registrar recorded it for 10 years after 2011; it appears again in 2022.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Calem was ranked #303 in Republic of 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.

Aengus#303
Albert#303
Alec#303
Ali#303
Allen#337
Antonio#337
Barra#337
Brion#337

What is known about Calem

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1996–2022.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 2022. Highest recorded position: #303 in Republic of Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Calem

Calem at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Calem across 2 official records

Calem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Calem is officially recorded

Names published alongside Calem

What is known about Calem

Calem at a glance

Calem across 2 official records

Calem by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Calem