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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Knight” in the USA?

Number of people named “Knight” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Knight” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Knight” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Knight” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Knight” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Knight” by birth year

This chart shows how “Knight” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 -100%
2000 8 0.000002116 8 -100%
2002 6 0.000001605 6 -100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 -100%
2005 7 0.000001821 7 -100%
2006 9 0.000002275 9 -100%
2007 6 0.000001501 6 -100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 -100%
2009 17 0.00000445 17 -100%
2010 24 0.000006494 24 -100%
2011 36 0.000009842 36 -100%
2012 38 0.00001039 38 -100%
2013 40 0.000010972 40 -100%
2014 43 0.000011602 43 -100%
2015 57 0.000015402 57 -100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 -100%
2017 60 0.000016778 60 -100%
2018 57 0.000016212 57 -100%
2019 70 0.000020167 70 -100%
2020 68 0.000020356 68 -100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 -100%
2022 74 0.000021873 74 -100%
2023 61 0.000018422 61 -100%
2024 49 0.000014721 49 -100%

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