Craig Boy Name

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The name Craig is of Welsh origin, and means rock. The table below indicates the number of times the name Craig has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Craig**
Use of the Name Craig for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
293,870	239,935	57,443	8,677	3,295	1,120	518

The table below indicates the number of times the name Craig has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Craig first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Craig**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	896	5
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886	997	5
1887
1888	834	7
1889
1890	823	7
1891
1892	983	6
1893
1894	748	9
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900	858	10
1901	974	6
1902
1903	927	7
1904
1905
1906	597	16
1907
1908	893	10
1909	851	12
1910
1911
1912	862	27
1913	782	37
1914	887	38
1915	684	72
1916	826	57
1917	830	59
1918	648	91
1919	881	57
1920	751	76
1921	736	80
1922	721	83
1923	597	112
1924	703	87
1925	645	97
1926	709	81
1927	620	102
1928	686	85
1929	580	106
1930	595	103
1931	544	115
1932	576	105
1933	543	110
1934	486	138
1935	428	171
1936	382	206
1937	297	331
1938	303	323
1939	301	348
1940	286	384
1941	234	539
1942	175	894
1943	164	1,131
1944	151	1,319
1945	132	1,602
1946	108	2,459
1947	93	3,627
1948	82	3,979
1949	77	4,320
1950	70	4,882
1951	63	5,599
1952	59	6,185
1953	60	6,444
1954	51	7,174
1955	50	7,432
1956	51	7,433
1957	55	7,051
1958	53	7,288
1959	44	9,903
1960	42	10,710
1961	43	10,224
1962	51	8,523
1963	51	7,906
1964	48	7,744
1965	46	7,866
1966	46	7,735
1967	46	7,313
1968	41	7,862
1969	39	8,780
1970	39	9,361
1971	43	7,948
1972	46	6,718
1973	48	6,280
1974	57	5,538
1975	58	5,107
1976	61	4,724
1977	63	4,560
1978	66	4,465
1979	77	4,021
1980	73	4,224
1981	72	4,089
1982	73	4,014
1983	70	4,084
1984	74	3,954
1985	79	3,949
1986	80	3,926
1987	88	3,361
1988	97	3,300
1989	105	3,157
1990	116	2,904
1991	135	2,394
1992	154	2,068
1993	175	1,835
1994	198	1,507
1995	220	1,354
1996	247	1,199
1997	257	1,097
1998	315	880
1999	327	852
2000	339	806
2001	380	682
2002	379	687
2003	425	602
2004	477	518
Totals:		293,870		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Craig as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Craig appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 105 times during the last 125 years.

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