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 | ||
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| 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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#472 · 1 in 2,398
- South Carolina#496 · 1 in 2,532
- North Carolina#562 · 1 in 3,190
- Missouri#682 · 1 in 4,078
- Florida#742 · 1 in 4,882
Best ever in a state: #258 in South Carolina, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | #472 | 21 | 1 in 2,398 |
| South Carolina | #496 | 8 | 1 in 2,532 |
| North Carolina | #562 | 16 | 1 in 3,190 |
| Missouri | #682 | 7 | 1 in 4,078 |
| Florida | #742 | 19 | 1 in 4,882 |
| Louisiana | #803 | 5 | 1 in 4,347 |
| Michigan | #819 | 8 | 1 in 5,371 |
| Indiana | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,460 |
| Ohio | #1,002 | 7 | 1 in 7,745 |
| Texas | #1,193 | 16 | 1 in 10,695 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,253 | 5 | 1 in 11,091 |
| Illinois | #1,296 | 5 | 1 in 10,781 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
| California | #1,704 | 9 | 1 in 21,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 91,159 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 63.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,174Zita19
- #6,174Zoila19
- #6,174Zuzu19
- #6,414Knowledge18
- #6,414Aanshi18
- #6,414Aariah18
- #6,414Adair18
- #6,691Abena17
- #6,691Adama17
- #6,691Adaora17
Tied with 276 names at #6,414; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 9,884 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).