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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 146,115 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 48.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #8,362Zissel12
- #8,362Zoella12
- #8,362Zyomi12
- #8,860Knowledge11
- #8,860Aadiya11
- #8,860Aadvika11
- #8,860Aara11
- #9,457Aanaya10
- #9,457Aarza10
- #9,457Aashi10
Tied with 596 names at #8,860; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 11,387 of them was named Knowledge, which outranked 90.7% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,290Maison151
- #1,290Titan151
- #1,290Yunus151
- #1,297Knowledge150
- #1,297Cartier150
- #1,297Cormac150
- #1,297Faris150
- #1,305Genesis149
- #1,305Haiden149
- #1,305Keenan149
Tied with 7 names at #1,297; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.