Meaning not yet researched.
Craig: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 102 in 2025. Its best rank was #39 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #39 in 1970; #1,644 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Craig in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,644 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #39.
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Craig: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 102 boys in 2025. Peak: #39 in 1970 · most boys in one year: 10,724 (1960).
In 2025, 102 US boys were named Craig, making it the 1,644th most common boys’ name of the year, up 192 places from #1,836 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 88 boys named Craig in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #39, reached in 1970. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10,724, in 1960. For comparison, it was #910 in 2015 and #69 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Craig in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 300,628 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 84,964 babies named Craig.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,514 US boys were named Craig; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 238. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,746 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Craig ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #802 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kraig (5,951 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Craige, Krag and Crag are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Craige (371), Krag (22), Crag (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Craig in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #802 | #721 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,054 | #666 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,124 | #1,025 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,378 | #1,041 |
| California | 8 | #1,861 | #1,221 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,126 | #977 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 102 | #1,644 |
| 2024 | — | — | 88 | #1,836 |
| 2023 | — | — | 115 | #1,531 |
| 2022 | — | — | 121 | #1,499 |
| 2021 | — | — | 125 | #1,444 |
| 2020 | — | — | 149 | #1,245 |
| 2019 | — | — | 205 | #1,013 |
| 2018 | — | — | 161 | #1,181 |
| 2017 | — | — | 210 | #980 |
| 2016 | — | — | 238 | #905 |
| 2015 | — | — | 237 | #910 |
| 2014 | — | — | 228 | #931 |
| 2013 | — | — | 268 | #814 |
| 2012 | — | — | 291 | #778 |
| 2011 | — | — | 272 | #806 |
| 2010 | — | — | 362 | #664 |
| 2009 | — | — | 368 | #666 |
| 2008 | — | — | 428 | #589 |
| 2007 | — | — | 471 | #546 |
| 2006 | — | — | 463 | #547 |
| 2005 | — | — | 504 | #491 |
| 2004 | — | — | 523 | #479 |
| 2003 | — | — | 607 | #424 |
| 2002 | — | — | 689 | #379 |
| 2001 | — | — | 682 | #381 |
| 2000 | — | — | 808 | #340 |
| 1999 | — | — | 854 | #327 |
| 1998 | — | — | 880 | #315 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,098 | #257 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,976 | 1,198 | #247 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,893 | 1,355 | #219 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,507 | #198 |
| 1993 | — | — | 1,837 | #175 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,746 | 2,070 | #154 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,827 | 2,399 | #135 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,193 | 2,907 | #117 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,627 | 3,155 | #105 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,915 | 3,306 | #96 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,540 | 3,364 | #88 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,780 | 3,926 | #80 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,162 | 3,952 | #79 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,246 | 3,959 | #75 |
| 1983 | 28 | #2,994 | 4,084 | #70 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,050 | 4,018 | #73 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,357 | 4,097 | #72 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,362 | 4,234 | #73 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,689 | 4,029 | #77 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,105 | 4,472 | #66 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,016 | 4,560 | #64 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,808 | 4,732 | #61 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,397 | 5,110 | #58 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,228 | 5,539 | #57 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,416 | 6,295 | #48 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,028 | 6,729 | #46 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,257 | 7,957 | #43 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,879 | 9,364 | #39 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,261 | 8,783 | #39 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,944 | 7,858 | #41 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,332 | 7,311 | #46 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,412 | 7,729 | #46 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,852 | 7,877 | #46 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,839 | 7,752 | #48 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,795 | 7,899 | #51 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,319 | 8,544 | #51 |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,483 | 10,235 | #43 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,752 | 10,724 | #41 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,161 | 9,933 | #44 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,591 | 7,272 | #53 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,428 | 7,069 | #55 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,223 | 7,422 | #51 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,564 | 7,448 | #50 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,350 | 7,180 | #51 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,518 | 6,459 | #60 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,510 | 6,187 | #59 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,834 | 5,623 | #63 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,095 | 4,888 | #69 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,225 | 4,328 | #77 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,397 | 3,985 | #82 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,093 | 3,640 | #93 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,463 | 2,471 | #108 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,736 | 1,597 | #134 |
| 1944 | — | — | 1,321 | #151 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,878 | 1,132 | #164 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,752 | 892 | #175 |
| 1941 | — | — | 539 | #236 |
| 1940 | — | — | 384 | #285 |
| 1939 | — | — | 348 | #300 |
| 1938 | — | — | 321 | #307 |
| 1937 | — | — | 330 | #297 |
| 1936 | — | — | 205 | #384 |
| 1935 | — | — | 170 | #430 |
| 1934 | — | — | 138 | #487 |
| 1933 | — | — | 111 | #541 |
| 1932 | — | — | 106 | #576 |
| 1931 | — | — | 112 | #555 |
| 1930 | — | — | 105 | #585 |
| 1929 | — | — | 106 | #580 |
| 1928 | — | — | 85 | #687 |
| 1927 | — | — | 102 | #620 |
| 1926 | — | — | 80 | #713 |
| 1925 | — | — | 97 | #645 |
| 1924 | — | — | 87 | #705 |
| 1923 | — | — | 112 | #596 |
| 1922 | — | — | 81 | #730 |
| 1921 | — | — | 80 | #738 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,140 | 77 | #746 |
| 1919 | — | — | 57 | #880 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,982 | 89 | #653 |
| 1917 | — | — | 59 | #833 |
| 1916 | — | — | 57 | #825 |
| 1915 | — | — | 72 | #684 |
| 1914 | — | — | 38 | #886 |
| 1913 | — | — | 37 | #782 |
| 1912 | — | — | 26 | #883 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,057 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,224 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #852 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #895 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,017 |
| 1906 | — | — | 16 | #596 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,248 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #926 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,181 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #974 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #918 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,084 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,132 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #801 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,102 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #823 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #834 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #998 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #896 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).