Surname statistics for Craig

There are approximately 33,469 people named Craig in the UK. That makes it the 276th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 530 are named Craig.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)33469276N/A530
United Kingdom (1881 census)131523130.044439
Change since 1881+20317+37+0.009+91
Other Countries
United States89591307N/A332
Australia5079275N/A311

Politics

People with the surname Craig are slightly less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Craig are:

  1. Conservative (4)
  2. Liberal Democrat (3)
  3. Labour (2)
  4. SNP (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Craig
David Craig
James Craig
Robert Craig
Andrew Craig
Ian Craig
Michael Craig
William Craig
Alan Craig
Peter Craig
Paul Craig
Stephen Craig
Richard Craig
Mark Craig
Colin Craig
George Craig
Thomas Craig
Brian Craig
Gordon Craig
Steven Craig

Top female forenames

Margaret Craig
Elizabeth Craig
Jennifer Craig
Susan Craig
Gillian Craig
Patricia Craig
Mary Craig
Julie Craig
Alison Craig
Karen Craig
Helen Craig
Jacqueline Craig
Christine Craig
Linda Craig
Yvonne Craig
Carol Craig
Sarah Craig
Fiona Craig
Amanda Craig
Nicola Craig

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.