Cragg
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cragg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: dweller by the steep or precipitous rugged rock(s); first attested Henry Crag 1204 AssY.
- USUnited States1 in 356K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.2M
- ESSpain1 in 5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cragg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 356K (inferred from the name graph)
934 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Крэгг in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dweller by the steep or precipitous rugged rock(s); first attested Henry Crag 1204 AssY
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cragg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 934 | 1 in 356K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 7 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 132M | — | Крэгг | 7 |
934 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cragg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, different form of Craig
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Craggb. 1891GBEnglish footballer (1891-1978)
- Herbert Craggb. 1910GBBritish Archdeacon (1910-1980)
- Kenneth Craggb. 1913GBAnglican bishop (1913–2012)
- Tony Craggb. 1949GBBritish sculptor (born 1949)
- Nelson Craggb. 1978USAmerican cinematographer
- Gulliver Craggb. 1978GBBritish journalist
- Alistair Ian Craggb. 1980IEIrish long-distance runner
- Amy Craggb. 1984USAmerican long distance runner
- Peter J CraggGBresearcher
- William J CraggGBresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,815 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 978 | #24,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 934 | #26,189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #161,190 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #194,868 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #155,932 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cragg mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller by the steep or precipitous rugged rock(s); first attested Henry Crag 1204 AssY Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Cragg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 934 people named Cragg, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cragg most common?
- Cragg is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 356 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cragg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 934 people named Cragg in 2010, about 1 in 356 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/craggThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cragg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.