girls:
42 births since 2016
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
56 births since 2012
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
98 births since 2012
#7641 (1st percentile)
The name Knightly is the #7,641 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98 recorded births since 2012. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 2012. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 2016.
Knightly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2012 (2012 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Knightly is available in 10 out of the 12 years between 2012 and 2023 (8 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Knightly has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (57.1% of all recorded births). In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Knightly were boys.
For boys, Knightly reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #908) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Knightly reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #936) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Knightly ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 78.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Knightly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Knightly is pronounced as NAIT-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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