Knút
given name · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Knút is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 21,598 people, counted by SSB PxWebApi in 2025.
- NONorway1 in 253(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 723
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)
21,598 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Knut in NO Norway, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knút 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.
21,598 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Knút Wangb. 1917FOFaroese journalist and politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Knút?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Knút, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knut. After it come Germany, Sweden, Ghana and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Knút most common?
- Knút is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 253 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Knút?
- In Norway, the national register counted 21,598 people named Knút in 2025, about 1 in 253 residents.
- How common is Knút compared with other names?
- In Norway, Knút is the 14th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Knút?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kn%C3%BAtThe 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, “Knút” — ranked 33rd in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.