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Kraig

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Kraig has been given to 5,951 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 212 recorded.

Babies named Kraig, 2020

1 in 557,000

Kraig over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kraig: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kraig means

Kraig is a given name.

The naming story behind Kraig

Wikidata records Kraig as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q88384817, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,951 boys were recorded with the name Kraig between 1939 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 212 in 1968; its best national rank was #523 in 1968.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Kraig?

Kraig had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 288,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kraig sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kraig. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kraigs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kraig was born before 1971 — so the typical Kraig is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,812
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1960s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (1,845).

Is Kraig rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (212)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#523
1968

Spellings of Kraig

Kraig is not the most common spelling — Craig is, with 73.3% against Kraig's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kraig is used

Across 1910–2025, Kraig was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 38,829 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 11,111
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  3. 3Michigan1 in 16,667
  4. 4Indiana1 in 20,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 20,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 25,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kraig has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kraig around the world

Where Kraig ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #1,766
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1953–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Kraig

People whose public names include Kraig, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Kraig by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#523
1968
Peak year
1968
212 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5,951
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kraig

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Kraig

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kraig, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Kraig

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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