Knight
About 934 American babies have been named Knight since 1923, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 2,421st. About 920 Knights are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Knight
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 934
- Estimated living today
- 920
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 2,039th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,421st
- First recorded
- 1923
How old the living Knights are
born that year still alive today
Of the 934 babies given the name since 1923, about 920 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 870 of them are children and 1 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Knights
- Keshia Knight Pulliam (born 1979)American actress
- Hablot Knight Browne (1815–1882)British artist
People named Knight with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Knight is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Knight is most concentrated in California (3.9×), Florida (3.9×), Texas (3.1×), New York (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Knight peaked:
Knight elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Knight | 27 | 3,523rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.