First name origins & meanings:
- Irish: Crag
- Persian: The sun
First name variations: Craigh, Cruz, Craigie, Craik, Kraig, Craig, Cy, Ciro Last name origins & meanings:
- Polish: possibly from the personal name Cyrus, derived
from the Greek form, Kyros, of the name of several kings of
Persia. The origin of the name is not known, but in the early
Christian period it was associated with Greek kyrios ‘lord’,
and borne by various saints, including an Egyptian martyr and a bishop
of Carthage.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of the Greek
family name Kyros, from the personal name (see 1 above).
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