Throughout the world, Knight (Knight 
, ナイト 
, نايت 
, and others...) is quite a rare dominantly boy's, but seldom female forename. The first name Knight is characteristic of Sri Lanka, where it is a rare male name, Indonesia, where it is a rare dominantly male, but seldom girly name, and Vietnam, where it is a very rare predominantly masculine, but very seldom girly name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, the United States, and Sri Lanka. Much more prevalently, Knight is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| Knight | United Kingdom, Australia, Indonesia, Canada, United States |
| ナイト | Japan |
| نايت | Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq |
| 奈特 | China |
| נייט | Israel |
| Найт | Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Russia |
Knight is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Knight of the Swan , the legendary medieval figure, Dolopathos; Knight Watchman , the comics character, Big Bang Comics; Knight , the DC Comics character, Batman; Knight Vinodur , the operatic character in the opera Cyberiada by Krzysztof Meyer and Knight Ebelasztin , the operatic character in the opera Háry János by Zoltán Kodály; chamberlain to the Empress Mária Lujza, among other works.
| sir john knight (born 1613) (b. 1613) |
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| sir joseph knight (b. 1709) |
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newton knight American Civil War guerilla, US (b. 1829) |
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| major knight American politician, US (b. 1812) |
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hamilton knight Australian politician, AU (b. 1888) |
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roy knight Canadian politician, CA (b. 1891) |
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| montagu george knight (1844-1914) (b. 1844) |
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goodwin knight 31st Governor of California, US (b. 1896) |
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| wyndham charles knight (b. 1863) |
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| stephenson yates knight a general manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (b. 1875) |
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| grant cochran knight American writer, English Professor at the University of Kentucky, US (b. 1893) |
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| montgomery knight American aeronautical engineer and academic administrator, US (b. 1901) |
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ray knight American professional baseball player, infielder, coach, US (b. 1952) |
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| loxton knight British painter (1905-1993/4), GB (b. 1905) |
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| hardwicke knight New Zealand photographer and writer, NZ (b. 1911) |
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