Craig

Craig is the 349th most common surname in the United States, shared by 87,675 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,409.

By the numbers

People: 87,675
Rank: 349th
How common: 1 in 3,409
Per 100,000: 29.3

Where the name comes from

From craig (“rock”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Craig described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.0%
Black, not Hispanic 14.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Craig

Daniel Craig (born 1968)English actor
William Lane Craig (born 1949)American Christian apologist and theologian
Ralph Craig (1889–1972)American athlete
Larry Craig (born 1945)American politician
Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966)Modernist stage designer and theatre director
Yvonne Craig (1937–2015)American actress
Wendy Craig (born 1934)British actress
James Craig (1912–1985)actor

People named Craig with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Craig

Also a first name

Craig has been given to 300,628 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1960. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.