Knowledge
Knowledge is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 184 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1840.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2020204 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 2,335people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,222 boys have been named Knowledge in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 204 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2020s alone account for 43%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 113 girls have also been given it, 4.8% of the total.
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Knowledge was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2020 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and William. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Knowledge
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ashpeak 2023
- Anakinpeak 2023
- Luccapeak 2020
- Malakaipeak 2023
- Aziahpeak 2024
- Yunuspeak 2023
- Rowanpeak 2024
- Demirpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.