Craig
Craig is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 88 births. Its best rank was 39th, in 1969–1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 880.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 196010,720 births
- Best rank
- #39first in 1969
- Since 1881
- 300,534people given the name
The story in the numbers
299,522 boys have been named Craig in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 10,720 births — 0.50% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 88 births in 2024, against 10,720 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 28%. It has spent 117 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,012 girls have also been given it, 0.34% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Craig | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 30 | |
| 1900s | 78 | |
| 1910s | 454 | |
| 1920s | 907 | |
| 1930s | 1,946 | |
| 1940s | 20,289 | |
| 1950s | 69,480 | |
| 1960s | 84,711 | |
| 1970s | 58,795 | |
| 1980s | 38,102 | |
| 1990s | 16,105 | |
| 2000s | 5,542 | |
| 2010s | 2,469 | |
| 2020s | 597 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Craig was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Craig
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Darylpeak 1956
- Jeffreypeak 1962
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Keithpeak 1957
- Jeffriepeak 1961
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Dirkpeak 1954
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.