Kraig
Kraig was last recorded in 2020, when 6 babies were given it; 5,951 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,070 Americans named Kraig and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 40 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kraig by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kraig?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,378, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
212 babies in 1968, the peak
Kraig peaked in 1968, when 212 boys were given it, #523 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | #11,378 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,370 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,552 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,333 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,184 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,507 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,116 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,494 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,292 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 11 | #7,486 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,571 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,438 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,743 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,075 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,407 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,047 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,035 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,379 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,140 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,561 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 60 | #1,568 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 68 | #1,426 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 61 | #1,512 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,135 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 116 | #970 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,047 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 133 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 120 | #855 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 116 | #842 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 105 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 110 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 96 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 105 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 87 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 90 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 103 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 90 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 81 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 93 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 110 | #793 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 99 | #810 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 125 | #722 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 152 | #646 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 180 | #619 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 212 | #558 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 189 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 212 | #523 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 172 | #578 | 0.10 |
| 1966 | 164 | #588 | 0.09 |
| 1965 | 192 | #554 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 183 | #586 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 181 | #587 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 205 | #550 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 186 | #581 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 161 | #616 | 0.08 |
| 1959 | 122 | #695 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 125 | #681 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 75 | #875 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 79 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 70 | #889 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,023 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 67 | #879 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,125 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,206 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,225 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,365 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,635 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,349 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,044 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,491 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,130 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,401 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,082 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,990 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kraig a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kraig has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kraig: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kraig, and how old are they?
5,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 5,951 Americans ever recorded as Kraig. The median Kraig alive today is 53 years old; half are between 40 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 4,937 people named Kraig (8 women and girls, 4,929 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,240 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 356 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kraig born?
The states with the most babies named Kraig are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 439 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 408 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 340 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 336 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 292 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Wisconsin | 254 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 225 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 208 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 164 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 145 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Kraig is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kraig is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1939 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kraig with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kraig?
Kraig is a less common spelling of Craig: SSA has recorded 5,951 Kraig and 300,628 Craig since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 306,579 babies since 1880, Kraig is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 102 babies recorded by SSA was a Kraig (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kraig
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kraig and names like it
- Compare Kraig and CraigBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKraig peaked in 1968.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kraig since 1910.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Kraig.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kraig alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.