Knox
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #196 for boys in 2025, 1,836 births
Given to boys 99.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,836 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,142since 1881
Knox over time
Rank among boys' names. Knox has never cracked the top 100 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 | #7,885 | 13 | #196 | 1,836 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | #209 | 1,706 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #208 | 1,783 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #199 | 1,902 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #220 | 1,737 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #238 | 1,530 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #241 | 1,563 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #219 | 1,707 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #233 | 1,640 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #245 | 1,539 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #258 | 1,403 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #286 | 1,244 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #344 | 928 |
| 2012 | — | #367 | 822 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #434 | 630 |
| 2010 | — | #459 | 579 | |
| 2009 | — | #704 | 341 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,655 | 93 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,150 | 60 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,399 | 48 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,283 | 50 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,922 | 33 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,450 | 25 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,974 | 20 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,591 | 21 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,877 | 17 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #5,926 | 6 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,521 | 8 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,972 | 15 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,225 | 12 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,498 | 10 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,986 | 14 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,867 | 15 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,821 | 15 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,802 | 15 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,932 | 14 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,214 | 11 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,092 | 7 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,178 | 13 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,731 | 19 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,960 | 16 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,121 | 15 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,981 | 16 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,696 | 21 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,695 | 21 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,648 | 22 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,052 | 16 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,752 | 19 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,827 | 18 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,479 | 23 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,698 | 18 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,803 | 10 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | #1,200 | 6 | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #968 | 8 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #1,101 | 5 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #815 | 7 | |
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | #653 | 8 | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Knox! It came in at #653, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1887, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Knox is popular in 1900
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Knox
- 13 spots since 2024 (#209 → #196)
- 42 spots since 2020 (#238 → #196)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#258 → #196)
- Biggest jump: 951 spots in 2009 (#1,655 → #704)
- Biggest drop: 22 spots in 2019 (#219 → #241)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 2025 at #196 (1,836 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 918 boys born in 2022 were named Knox (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 930 boys born in 2025 (0.11%)
- Its best rank, #196 in 2025, was only 1 in 930 (0.11%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 49.9% of all boys named Knox (12,055) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | #653 (1881) | #734 |
| 1890s | 5 | #1,101 (1896) | #1,101 |
| 1900s | 20 | #968 (1900) | #1,148 |
| 1910s | 111 | #1,479 (1917) | #1,998 |
| 1920s | 173 | #1,648 (1921) | #1,952 |
| 1930s | 95 | #1,932 (1934) | #2,549 |
| 1940s | 111 | #1,802 (1940) | #2,365 |
| 1950s | 92 | #1,972 (1951) | #2,633 |
| 1960s | 41 | #2,706 (1961) | #3,425 |
| 1970s | 20 | #3,521 (1970) | #4,195 |
| 1980s | 30 | #4,698 (1985) | #6,244 |
| 1990s | 127 | #3,191 (1998) | #5,250 |
| 2000s | 753 | #704 (2009) | #2,536 |
| 2010s | 12,055 | #219 (2018) | #309 |
| 2020s | 10,494 | #196 (2025) | #212 |
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.
Knox in 1900
Top boys' names in 1900
More about 1900
boys
150,474 boys got a published name in 1900; 1 in 18,809 of them was named Knox, which outranked 35.7% of the 1,506 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).