Boys' name · since 2014
Knoxville
Knoxville has 10 recorded births since 2014 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2014 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 10
- total births
- 2014–2023
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 50%
- born in that decade
10 boys have been named Knoxville since 2014, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Knoxville has 10 recorded births among boys since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2023.
- 10 total births
- 2014–2023 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 50% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Knoxville's 10 recorded births place it above 21% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Knoxville's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Knoxville's full recorded timeline at 2023, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2014, with just 5 recorded births.
Knoxville popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2023
- Peak year (2014)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Knoxville by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Knoxville's strongest decade.
5 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Knoxville births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 5 births (50% of all-time use).
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What to do with Knoxville's data
- Knoxville's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (5 total births) through the 2020s (5) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 2014–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Knoxville: Baby Name Since 2014 - 10 Births, Peak 2014." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/knoxville. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Knoxville 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 July 2026.