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.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 162,019 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 46.1% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,946Zyasia11
- #8,946Zylia11
- #8,946Zyon11
- #9,556Knowledge10
- #9,556Aaila10
- #9,556Aalyiah10
- #9,556Aariana10
- #10,271Aaditri9
- #10,271Aafia9
- #10,271Aafiya9
Tied with 714 names at #9,556; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 9,263 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 92.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,129Zayan188
- #1,133Gary187
- #1,133Kenan187
- #1,135Knowledge186
- #1,135Kaius186
- #1,135Kanan186
- #1,135Sol186
- #1,140Coast185
- #1,140Emrys185
- #1,140Jean185
Tied with 4 names at #1,135; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.