Caoilte

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Caoilte: 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
10times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#281highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in Northern Ireland · 2002–2022

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Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#281
2010	#387
2016	#358
2022	#414

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

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

What the data shows

FallingNorthern Ireland · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 6 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2022: #414 among boys in Northern Ireland, #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1998–2024 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #369 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2022
Highest recorded position: #281 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2002 (recorded 2002–2022).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2024.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Caoilte appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 22 births with the name.

Caoilte 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.

Caoilte'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	#369 (1998)	#369 (1998)	#785 (2024)	6 of 27	22 (1998–2024)	6 (2007)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#281 (2002)	#281 (2002)	#414 (2022)	4 of 21	13 (2002–2022)	4 (2016)

Caoilte by decade in Republic of Ireland · 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 Caoilte in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	6	1 of 10	6
2010s	3	1 of 10	3
2020s	10	3 of 10	3

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2002.

Caoilte'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
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#387	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#281	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#435	6	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified

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 Caoilte is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Caoilte, between 1998 and 2024, in 9 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.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1998–2024	6	#369 in 1998
Northern Ireland	2002–2022	4	#281 in 2002

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 2016; it appears again in 2022.

Caoilte was ranked #281 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2002. 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.

Alistair#281
Benn#281
Bernard#281
Billy#281

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 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #281 in Northern Ireland in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Caoilte

Caoilte at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Caoilte across 2 official records

Caoilte by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Popularity data

Where Caoilte is officially recorded

Names published alongside Caoilte

Caoilte at a glance

Caoilte across 2 official records

Caoilte by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Names published alongside Caoilte