Knowlton
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Knowlton has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 1897. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Knowlton, 1925
1 in 467,000
Knowlton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Knowlton?
Knowlton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1925
- 1 in 467,000
- 5 of 2,333,232 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1925
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 323,456 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Knowlton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Knowlton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Knowltons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Knowlton was born before 1918 — so the typical Knowlton is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 42.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Knowlton 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (6)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Knowlton
Knowlton is not the most common spelling — Kolton is, with 99.8% against Knowlton's 0.15%.
- Kolton99.8%17,169
- Knowlton0.15%26
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.
Knowlton around the world
Where Knowlton 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.
- South Australia1947–1947#277in 1947
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Knowlton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Knowlton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Knowlton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.