McKnight

32,935 people in the United States were counted with the surname McKnight in the 2020 census, making it the 1,050th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,075.

By the numbers

People: 32,935
Rank: 1,050th
How common: 1 in 9,075
Per 100,000: 11.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Neachtain, which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 57.5%
Black, not Hispanic 33.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like McKnight

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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.