Knute
Knute was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,976 among boys’ names; 691 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Knute by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Knute mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Knute is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Knute?
#7,976 among boys’ names, 2025
Knute rose from #13,162 in 2015 to #7,976 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 5.9 per million.
19 babies in 1931, the peak
Knute peaked in 1931, when 19 boys were given it, #1,669 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,976 | 5.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,273 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,162 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,507 | 3.1 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,448 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,812 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,684 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,739 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,271 | 4.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,367 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #8,769 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,590 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,238 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,961 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,611 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,315 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,785 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,816 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,070 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,451 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,584 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,393 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,310 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,114 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,184 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,250 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,783 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,890 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,700 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,603 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,840 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,240 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,780 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,946 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,436 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,234 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,984 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,008 | 7.8 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,264 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,627 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,210 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,219 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,677 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,984 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,173 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,560 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,481 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,490 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,752 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,655 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,209 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,148 | 9.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,771 | 6.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,049 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,364 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,465 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,895 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,870 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,548 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,669 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,893 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,517 | 10.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,545 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,036 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,974 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,930 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,041 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,714 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,649 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,965 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,468 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,496 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,472 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,732 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,546 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,745 | 21.5 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,184 | 41.8 |
| 1893 | 7 | #874 | 62.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,022 | 49.2 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,048 | 49.4 |
| 1889 | 6 | #932 | 54.3 |
| 1886 | 6 | #908 | 54.2 |
| 1880 | 5 | #997 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Knute a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Knute has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Knute: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Knute, and how old are they?
An estimated 326 Americans named Knute and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 35 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 454 people named Knute (2 women and girls, 452 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 362 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Knute
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Dow | 1,091 |
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 Knute and names like it
- Compare Knute and DowBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sKnute peaked in 1931.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Knute since 1910.
- The top names of 1931The year the most babies were named Knute.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Knute alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.