Knoa
#7,018 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Knoa has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #7,018 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Knoa, 2025
1 in 276,000
Knoa over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Knoa over time
In 2025, Knoa went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Knoa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,018
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Knoa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Knoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Knoas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Knoa was born before 2023 — so the typical Knoa is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 78.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 65
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 78.5% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Knoa rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +50
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2024 (12)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.0% average annual change
Spellings of Knoa
Knoa is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 82.7% against Knoa's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Knoa around the world
Where Knoa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2023–2024#5,120in 2024
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Knoa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Knoa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Knoa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.