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Knight: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,052 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,052 in 2022; #2,435 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Knight in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,435 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,052.
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Knight: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,052 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 74 (2022).
In 2025, 56 US boys were named Knight, making it the 2,435th most common boys’ name of the year, up 257 places from #2,692 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 49 boys named Knight in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,052, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #2,316 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Knight in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 6 babies. In all, 934 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 477 babies named Knight.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 605 US boys were named Knight; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,501 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Knight ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,198 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,198 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,984 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,104 | #1,591 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,786 | #1,854 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 56 | #2,435 |
| 2024 | — | — | 49 | #2,692 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,302 |
| 2022 | — | — | 74 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | — | — | 58 | #2,361 |
| 2020 | — | — | 68 | #2,084 |
| 2019 | — | — | 70 | #2,073 |
| 2018 | — | — | 57 | #2,340 |
| 2017 | — | — | 60 | #2,226 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,454 |
| 2015 | — | — | 57 | #2,316 |
| 2014 | — | — | 43 | #2,781 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,875 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,034 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,142 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,181 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,447 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,007 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,740 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,431 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,683 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #11,935 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #10,117 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,866 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,551 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,524 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,958 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,043 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).