Caulder
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KAWL-der
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Caulder is a boys' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Caulder mean?
Scottish: spelling of Kaulder; probably a respelling of Calder, a Scottish place name
Kaulder is the immortal hero of the 2015 fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter.
Meaning borrowed from Kaulder.
Is Caulder a girl's or a boy's name?
Caulder is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Caulder in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Caulder, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had more boys named Caulder than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Caulder in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 117 boys in the US were given Caulder or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,352, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.
Caulder in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,056 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
Names like Caulder
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ledger, Archer, Wylder, Colter, Cooper, Ares, Xander, Wilder, Brewer, Baker, Ander, Luca
Other spellings of Caulder
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Caulder: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/caulder, updated 20 October 2026.