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The CRAIG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 89,591 307 0.033 332
United States (1880 census) 23,374 220 0.047 467
Change since 1880 +66217 -87 -0.014 -135
Other Countries
Australia 5,079 275 0.031 311
United Kingdom 20,903 261 0.046 455
Top States for CRAIG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 6,737 466 0.020 199
Texas 5,950 408 0.029 285
Florida 4,623 387 0.029 289
Ohio 4,487 246 0.040 395
Pennsylvania 4,468 229 0.036 364
Top States for CRAIG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Indiana 3,760 141 0.062 618
Alabama 2,676 255 0.060 602
Arkansas 1,552 207 0.058 581
Oklahoma 1,859 212 0.054 539
Tennessee 2,995 259 0.053 526

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CRAIG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CRAIG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CRAIG in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CRAIG by picking someone at random in Indiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CRAIG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CRAIG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CRAIG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CRAIG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 609 0.68
Asian/Pacific 448 0.5
White (Caucasian) 72,721 81.17
Black/African American 12,964 14.47
Mixed Race 1,407 1.57
White (Hispanic) 1,442 1.61

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CRAIG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CRAIG in historical publications

(origin: Cor. Br. and Welsh.) A rock, a crag, a stone; Gaelic, carraig, a rock, creag, a rock.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


CRAIG. A parish in Forfarshire, and an estate in Perthshire. As a topographical expression, Craig has the same meaning as Carrick, Avhich see.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CRAIG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CRAIG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CRAIG

The following words are slight variants of CRAIG that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.