Knute
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1893 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 691since 1880
Knute over time
Rank among boys' names. Knute has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #2,821 | 9 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #2,190 | 14 |
| 1956 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1955 | #1,979 | 16 |
| 1954 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #2,580 | 9 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | #2,115 | 13 |
| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
| 1946 | #2,403 | 10 |
| 1945 | #2,393 | 9 |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1942 | #2,145 | 12 |
| 1941 | #2,083 | 12 |
| 1940 | #2,671 | 8 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,905 | 7 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #1,860 | 15 |
| 1933 | #2,738 | 8 |
| 1932 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #1,643 | 19 |
| 1930 | #2,781 | 9 |
| 1929 | #2,452 | 11 |
| 1928 | #3,357 | 7 |
| 1927 | #2,912 | 9 |
| 1926 | #3,708 | 6 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,822 | 10 |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,872 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #2,398 | 12 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,389 | 11 |
| 1915 | #2,621 | 9 |
| 1914 | #2,457 | 8 |
| 1913 | #1,676 | 11 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,101 | 5 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | — | |
| 1893 | #836 | 7 |
| 1892 | #956 | 6 |
| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #878 | 6 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Knute was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1885, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Knute is popular in 1880
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Knute
- 4,407 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 120 spots in 1893 (#956 → #836)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1893 at #836 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1894, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1891–1893
- Highest: 1 in 16,045 boys born in 1893 were named Knute (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 16.6% of all boys named Knute (115) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | #845 (1886) | #877 |
| 1890s | 23 | #836 (1893) | #964 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 68 | #1,676 (1913) | #2,529 |
| 1920s | 67 | #2,452 (1929) | #3,416 |
| 1930s | 84 | #1,643 (1931) | #2,492 |
| 1940s | 92 | #2,083 (1941) | #2,607 |
| 1950s | 115 | #1,945 (1956) | #2,475 |
| 1960s | 74 | #2,546 (1964) | #3,108 |
| 1970s | 39 | #3,318 (1974) | #4,495 |
| 1980s | 25 | #4,552 (1984) | #5,935 |
| 1990s | 31 | #6,816 (1993) | #7,800 |
| 2000s | 25 | #7,831 (2003) | #10,332 |
| 2010s | 21 | #10,717 (2014) | #11,812 |
| 2020s | 10 | #7,679 (2025) | #7,679 |
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.
Knute in 1880
Top boys' names in 1880
More about 1880
boys
110,490 boys got a published name in 1880; 1 in 22,098 of them was named Knute, which outranked 14.1% of the 1,058 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 44.2% of boys (8.0% in 2025).