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Knowledge: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,020 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,020 in 2020; #1,303 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Knowledge in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,303 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,020.
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Knowledge: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,020 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 204 (2020).
In 2025, 150 US boys were named Knowledge, making it the 1,303rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 166 places from #1,137 in 2024. That is 36 fewer than the 186 boys named Knowledge in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,020, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #1,925 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Knowledge in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 2,499 US babies have been given the name, 5.0% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,183 babies named Knowledge.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,623 US boys were named Knowledge; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,387 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Knowledge ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #487 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 10 | #487 | #717 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #562 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #770 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #805 | #1,075 |
| Maryland | 5 | #868 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #904 | #1,452 |
| Michigan | 7 | #957 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,030 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,035 | #1,154 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,384 | #2,029 |
| California | 10 | #1,647 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,190 | 150 | #1,303 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,934 | 186 | #1,137 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,325 | 188 | #1,126 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,477 | 199 | #1,092 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,545 | 177 | #1,141 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,772 | 204 | #1,020 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,927 | 160 | #1,198 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,507 | 139 | #1,313 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,448 | 107 | #1,537 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,363 | 113 | #1,508 |
| 2015 | — | — | 76 | #1,925 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,962 | 71 | #2,010 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,043 | 51 | #2,445 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,058 |
| 2011 | — | — | 61 | #2,160 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,493 |
| 2009 | — | — | 53 | #2,428 |
| 2008 | — | — | 40 | #2,984 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,283 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,810 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,132 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,592 |
| 2003 | — | — | 24 | #3,685 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,580 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,967 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,006 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,651 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,099 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,634 |
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).