This page shows the Cathal (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1992 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Cathal 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 Cathal'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 Cathal for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Cathal appears in 8 of them, from 1992 to 2025, with 25 babies in total. Its largest single year was 2006, when the table records 4 babies given the name, at rank 487 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1992 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Cathal 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, 1992 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20253762
20123669
20073595
20064487
20033480
20023438
19983422
19923380

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