Caolin

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Caolin: 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
8times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#218highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in Northern Ireland · 1998–2006

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Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#221
1999	#277
2001	#218
2006	#282

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 4 of the 28 years from 1994 to 2021.

In 1999: #277 among boys in Northern Ireland, #290 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1994–2021 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1994
First recorded at #342 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1994 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2006
Highest recorded position: #218 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 1998–2006).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #755 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2021.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Caolin appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 4 years beginning in 1994, and has registered 15 births with the name.

Caolin 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.

Caolin'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	#342 (1994)	#290 (1999)	#755 (2021)	4 of 28	15 (1994–2021)	5 (1999)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#221 (1998)	#218 (2001)	#282 (2006)	4 of 9	17 (1998–2006)	5 (1998)

Caolin 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 1994 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2001.

Caolin'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
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#282	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#218	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#221	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#646	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	5	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	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.

Caolin was ranked #218 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2001. 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.

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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 1994 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Caolin

Caolin at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Caolin across 2 official records

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Popularity data

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Caolin at a glance

Caolin across 2 official records

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