Girls' name · since 2017
Knovah
Knovah has 35 recorded births since 2017 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #39,176 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,631 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 35
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
35 babies have been named Knovah since 2017, making it today's #16631 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Knovah has been recorded 35 times among girls since 2017, currently ranked #16631 nationally and more common than 4% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2025.
- #39,176 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,631 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 35 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Knovah ranks #39,176 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,631 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 35 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #39,176 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,631 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 35
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Knovah's 35 recorded births place it above 45.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Knovah compares
35 12th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Knovah's all-time total is 91% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Knovah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 35 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Knovah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Knovah's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2024, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Knovah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 9 years of records
Knovah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (29 births, 83% of the file).
2020s was Knovah's strongest decade.
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 83% of all-time use.
Knovah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 29 births (83% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Knovah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Knovah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.