girls:
1k births since 1918
#4704 (18th percentile)
boys:
299.4k births since 1881
#121 (97th percentile)
overall:
300.4k births since 1881
#254 (97th percentile)
The name Craig is the #254 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 300,438 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 96.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #121 (97.4% percentile) for all time with 299,426 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #4,704 (17.7% percentile) for all time with 1,012 births since 1918.
Craig first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Craig is available in 131 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 54 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Craig has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Craig reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 94.3% percentile (ranked #39) with 4,918 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 4,950 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1971, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Craig ranks #803 for boys (11.9% percentile) with 62 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Craig reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #732) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 25 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Craig".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Craig is pronounced as krayg, which has 1 syllables.
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