This page shows the Cairn (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1991 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Cairn was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Cairn's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Cairn for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Cairn appears in 30 of them, from 1991 to 2025, with 201 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2005, when the table records 11 babies given the name, at rank 267 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1991 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Cairn for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1991 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
202511316
20246478
202311321
20229363
20218401
20208390
20199355
20189361
20174602
20169375
20156470
20146490
20139366
20126467
20113648
20107399
20098375
20086419
20065436
200511267
20035361
20026305
20015339
20003429
19988259
19974358
19967264
19953380
19933378
19916276

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