Knecht

At the 2020 census, 5,322 Americans bore the surname Knecht — 6,170th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,322
Rank: 6,170th
How common: 1 in 56,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

surname, from Middle High German and gml knecht (“journeyman, knight's servant”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Knecht described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Knecht

Dalton Knecht (born 2001)American basketball player
Hans Knecht (1913–1986)Swiss racing cyclist
William Knecht (1930–1992)American rower

People named Knecht with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Knecht

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.