Kníght
surname · Latin script
Kníght is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 1.3K
- GDGrenada1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
136,713 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Knight in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishknight(measured from records)
- Old Englishcniht“boy; servant“boy; servant, knight”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*kneht(measured from records)
From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.
Sources 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kníght counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 136,713 | 1 in 2.4K | 137K | Knight | 44 |
| ES Spain | 410 | 1 in 122K | 410 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 137 | 1 in 74K | 137 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 116 | 1 in 48K | 116 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 114 | 1 in 336K | 74 | — | 1 |
| GD Grenada | 50 | 1 in 2.3K | 50 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 43 | 1 in 1.3K | 43 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | 29 | 1 in 2.6K | 29 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | — |
136,713 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kníght mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Kníght have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Kníght, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knight.
- Where is Kníght most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kníght is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kníght?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136,713 people named Kníght in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kn%C3%ADghtThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kníght”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.