Knowledge
Knowledge was given to 150 boys in 2025, #1,303 among boys’ names; 2,499 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Knowledge and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Knowledge by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Knowledge?
#1,303 among boys’ names, 2025
Knowledge rose from #1,925 in 2015 to #1,303 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 39.7 to 87.8 per million.
218 babies in 2020, the peak
Knowledge peaked in 2020, when 218 babies were given it (204 boys, #1,020 among boys’ names). The 161 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 150 | #1,303 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,137 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 188 | #1,126 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 199 | #1,092 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 177 | #1,141 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 204 | #1,020 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 160 | #1,198 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,313 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,537 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,508 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,925 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,009 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,444 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,057 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,159 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,492 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,427 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,983 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,281 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,588 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,680 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,576 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,962 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,000 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,646 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,092 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,626 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Knowledge a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,499 Americans recorded as Knowledge, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 150 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Knowledge: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Knowledge, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,499 Americans ever recorded as Knowledge. The median Knowledge alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 541 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,930 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Where are babies named Knowledge born?
The states with the most babies named Knowledge are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,384 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,035 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 12 | #770 | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #805 | 2.3× |
| South Carolina | 10 | #487 | 3.0× |
| California | 10 | #1,647 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 9 | #904 | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #562 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 7 | #957 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,030 | 0.5× |
Where Knowledge is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Knowledge is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1989 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Knowledge with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Knowledge
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Knowledge and names like it
- Compare Knowledge and DemirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKnowledge peaked in 2020.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Knowledge since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Knowledge.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Knowledge alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.