Craig is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Craig isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Craig ranks 933. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Craig. In the entire USA, approximately 294,664 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Craig. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
#39 - this is the highest position Craig has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Craig reached this top position was in the last century, in 1970, when 9,418 newborn boys were named Craig. But as our statistics show, Craig has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1905, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Craig is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn sons.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Craig was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 120 newborns were given the name Craig, making them rank #1,377. Although the name Craig was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their sons. So the chances of an encounter with a young Craig are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Craig is one of them. However, Craig is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Iowa seem to particularly fancy this name – the 8,276 men called Craig who live here are 0,376% of all male residents and push their name up to #59 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Iowa. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 294,664 people with the name Craig. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Craig on position 113 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Craig is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Craig and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Craig, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Craig sounds like this: