Knott

At the 2020 census, 13,734 Americans bore the surname Knott — 2,570th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,734
Rank: 2,570th
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

From Middle English Knut, a male given name from Old Norse Knútr.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Knott

Lydia Knott (1866–1955)American actress
Andrew Knott (born 1979)British actor
J. Proctor Knott (1830–1911)American politician

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

Surnames like Knott

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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.