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The KNOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,008 2369 0.005 52
United States (1880 census) 3,099 1962 0.006 62
Change since 1880 +10909 -407 -0.001 -10
Other Countries
Australia 1,183 1394 0.007 72
United Kingdom 6,439 984 0.014 140
Top States for KNOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,036 3073 0.003 31
Maryland 945 606 0.018 178
Texas 724 3232 0.003 35
Florida 689 3047 0.004 43
Ohio 667 2117 0.006 59
Top States for KNOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 945 606 0.018 178
Nebraska 200 938 0.012 117
Kentucky 437 1334 0.011 108
Virginia 627 1522 0.009 89
Minnesota 432 1333 0.009 88

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of KNOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the KNOTT 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 KNOTT 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 KNOTT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 195 1.39
Mixed Race 191 1.36
Native American/Alaskan 69 0.49
Asian/Pacific 64 0.46
White (Caucasian) 11,960 85.38
Black/African American 1,530 10.92

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

Meaning of KNOTT in historical publications

KNOTT. The Scandinavian Cnut or Canute, a personal name. Camden says that the sandpiper or laiot-\nvA, derives its name from King Canute. Britannia, 971. And Drayton in his Polyolbion sings —

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to KNOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNOTT.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for KNOTT

The following words are slight variants of KNOTT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.