Knowledge
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #1,297 for boys in 2025, 150 births
Given to boys 95.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 204 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,375since 1989
Knowledge over time
Rank among boys' names. Knowledge has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #1,297 | 150 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #1,135 | 186 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #1,124 | 188 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #1,092 | 199 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,140 | 177 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #1,017 | 204 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #1,193 | 160 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #1,305 | 139 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #1,530 | 107 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,501 | 113 |
| 2015 | — | #1,910 | 76 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #2,424 | 51 |
| 2012 | — | #2,049 | 67 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,145 | 61 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,401 | 53 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,250 | 34 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,784 | 41 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,534 | 26 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,626 | 24 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,556 | 38 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,931 | 31 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,922 | 20 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Knowledge! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Knowledge is popular in 1989
No state had 5 or more boys named Knowledge in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Knowledge
- 162 spots since 2024 (#1,135 → #1,297)
- 280 spots since 2020 (#1,017 → #1,297)
- 613 spots since 2015 (#1,910 → #1,297)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2020 at #1,017 (204 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,461 boys born in 2020 were named Knowledge (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,387 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 46.5% of all boys named Knowledge (1,104) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 31 | #3,591 (1999) | #4,716 |
| 2000s | 340 | #2,401 (2009) | #3,104 |
| 2010s | 895 | #1,193 (2019) | #1,852 |
| 2020s | 1,104 | #1,017 (2020) | #1,134 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Knowledge in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.