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Craig

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɹeɪ̯ɡ//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈkʰɹʷeɪ̯ɡ]/
  • United States//ˈkɹɛɡ//
  • United States/[ˈkʰɹʷɛɡ]/
  • United States//ˈkɹeɪ̯ɡ//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

  2. 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

    He told her the name he had used to rent the cabin. " I'm Craig Hemsworth." She burst out laughing. "That's a funnier name than mine. It sounds like the kind of name they give a movie actor when they decide his own name won't do.

    Lyonne’s Animal Pictures banner with Max Ferguson is producing “Bambo” alongside Craig Mazin (“Chernobyl,” “The Last of Us”) for Word Games and Sarah Sarandos.

  3. 3

    A placename A locale in the United States. A city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska; named for early settler and fishmonger Craig Miller.

  4. 4

    A placename A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in California; named for a railroad official.

  5. 5

    A placename A locale in the United States. A ghost town in Modoc County, California; named for postmaster Robert A. Craig.

  6. 6

    A placename A locale in the United States. A city, the county seat of Moffat County, Colorado; named for financier Rev. William Bayard Craig.

  7. 7

    A placename A locale in the United States. A township in Switzerland County, Indiana.

  8. 8

    A placename A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Decatur County, Indiana.

  9. 9

    A placename A locale in the United States. A minor city in Plymouth County, Iowa.

  10. 10

    A placename A locale in the United States. A minor city in Holt County, Missouri; named for lawyer and politician James Craig.

  11. 11

    A placename A locale in the United States. A census-designated place in Lewis and Clark County, Montana.

  12. 12

    A placename A locale in the United States. A township and village therein, in Burt County, Nebraska; named for early settler William Stewart Craig.

  13. 13

    A placename A locale in the United States. An unincorporated community in Guernsey County, Ohio.

  14. 14

    A placename A river in Alaska, United States and British Columbia, Canada; named for engineer John Davidson Craig.

  15. 15

    A placename A small settlement in Glen Carron, Wester Ross, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH0349).

Etymology

From craig (“rock”).

Forms

plural
Craigs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).