Craig
Celtic in origin, from a word for "rock" or "crag". In Poland it barely registers: just 117 men carry it, and no boys were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Craig Pronunciation
Craig is pronounced TSRAH-eek (/ˈt͡sraik/).
What Craig means
Where Craig comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Craig begins in the Celtic word for a rock, the crag that juts from a hillside. In Scottish Gaelic this is creag, and it named the place before it named the person. Men were called after the stone they lived beside, and the label settled onto families as a surname. Later it crossed into use as a first name across the English-speaking world, and it grew common in Britain during the twentieth century.
The meaning stayed plain. Craig is skała, a rock, a crag. There are no diminutives to soften it and no feminine form to pair with. The name resists nicknames.
In a Polish class register, Craig would sit slightly apart from the Kacpers and Krzysztofs around it. It reads as English, and Polish speakers hear that at once. The final g stays hard, the vowel short. Behind the sound is old Celtic stone, creag, the rock in the hill.
How many people are named Craig
1 in 182446 men in Poland is named Craig. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3122 among male names.
Craig as a middle name
Craig is a first name for 117 men in Poland and a middle name for another 58, a 67/33 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 970th, between Chinedu (58) and Edouard (58).
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#968 Attila58
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#969 Chinedu58
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#970 Craig58
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#971 Edouard58
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#972 Emin58