Knowledge
#1,303 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Knowledge has been given to 2,499 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #1,303 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 204 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Knowledge, 2025
1 in 22,100
Knowledge 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Knowledge over time
In 2025, Knowledge went to 7% girls and 93% 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 Knowledge?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,100
- 150 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 11,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,303
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,320 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Knowledge 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 15,320 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Knowledge. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Knowledges were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Knowledge was born before 2019 — so the typical Knowledge is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 46.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,375
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (1,104).
Is Knowledge 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
- −166
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −283
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +622
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.97×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.5%
- Peak was 2020 (204)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.9% average annual change
Where Knowledge is used
Across 2016–2025, Knowledge was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,381 boys, against 1 in 10,089 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 2,381
- 2North Carolina1 in 3,704
- 3Georgia1 in 3,846
- 4Louisiana1 in 4,167
- 5Florida1 in 5,263
- 6Illinois1 in 7,692
- 7Ohio1 in 7,692
- 8Maryland1 in 9,091
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Knowledge around the world
Where Knowledge 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.
- Canada2020–2020#2,945in 2020
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Knowledge by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Knowledge
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Knowledge
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Knowledge, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Knowledge
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.