Knox
The 2025 national count puts Knox at #196, peaking as we speak. An old entry (1881) having its biggest moment now, with 24,142 American bearers across the record.
Knox’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Knox, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Knox since 1881
Knox peaked in 2022 at #199; #196 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Knox is most common
Knox is most common in Wyoming: 0.55% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Nebraska (0.45%) and North Dakota (0.42%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Knox
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Kaia
#193 in 2025
Kai
#93 in 2025
Lia
#200 in 2025 · Hebrew
Kingston
#204 in 2025
Rhett
#188 in 2025
Finn
#206 in 2025 · Celtic
Kaylani
#185 in 2025
Max
#180 in 2025 · Latin
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About Knox
Where does Knox rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Knox at #196, peaking as we speak. The full curve since 1881 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Knox have a meaning on record?
The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Knox. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.
Which names sit near Knox?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Kaia, Kai and Lia, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
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