girls:
206 births since 2011
#5510 (4th percentile)
boys:
20.6k births since 1881
#806 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20.8k births since 1881
#1778 (77th percentile)
The name Knox is the #1,778 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,782 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 77.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #806 (82.4% percentile) for all time with 20,576 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,510 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 206 births since 2011.
Knox first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 2011 for girls). Birth data for Knox is available in 101 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (101 years for boys and 12 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 Knox has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Knox reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 79.4% percentile (ranked #191) with 1,013 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 1,013 births per million (ranked 79.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1991, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Knox is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #205 (77.6% percentile) with 967 births per million.
For girls, Knox reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #935) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Knox ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 80.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Knox".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Knox is pronounced as nahks, which has 1 syllables.
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