The KNIGHTS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,823	14890	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	992	5491	0.002	20
Change since 1880	+831	-9399	-0.001	-13
Other Countries
Australia	703	2296	0.004	43
United Kingdom	4,423	1418	0.01	96

Top States for KNIGHTS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	244	7422	0.001	13
Maine	185	1255	0.015	145
Florida	149	11355	0.001	9
Massachusetts	136	5654	0.002	21
California	96	22396	0.000	3
Top States for KNIGHTS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	185	1255	0.015	145
Vermont	39	2478	0.006	64
New Hampshire	50	3351	0.004	40
Massachusetts	136	5654	0.002	21
Washington DC	8	6696	0.001	14

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called KNIGHTS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called KNIGHTS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called KNIGHTS in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a KNIGHTS by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of KNIGHTS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KNIGHTS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the KNIGHTS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of KNIGHTS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	537	29.46
White (Hispanic)	55	3.02
Mixed Race	40	2.19
Asian/Pacific	6	0.33
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.33
White (Caucasian)	1,179	64.67

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the KNIGHTS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to KNIGHTS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNIGHTS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.