Craig
See also: craig
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic creag (“rock”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɹeɪɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /kɹɛɡ/, /kɹeɪɡ/
- Rhymes: -eɪɡ, -ɛɡ
Proper noun edit
Craig (countable and uncountable, plural Craigs)
- (countable) A surname.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1979, Bruce Jackson, The Programmer: A Novel, Doubleday, page 168:
- 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.
- A placename
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Alaska; named for early settler and fishmonger Craig Miller.
- An unincorporated community in California; named for a railroad official.
- A ghost town in Modoc County, California; named for postmaster Robert A. Craig.
- A city, the county seat of Moffat County, Colorado; named for financier Rev. William Bayard Craig.
- A township in Switzerland County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Decatur County, Indiana.
- A city in Iowa.
- A city in Missouri; named for lawyer and politician James Craig.
- An unincorporated community in Montana.
- A township and village therein, in Burt County, Nebraska; named for early settler William Stewart Craig.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
- A river in Alaska, United States and British Columbia, Canada; named for engineer John Davidson Craig.
- A locale in the United States.
Alternative forms edit
- (Irish surname from "de Craig"): Cregg
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
city in Alaska
|