Knoben
surname · Latin script
Knoben is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 658as Noble(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 2Kas Noble
- USUnited States1 in 8Kas Noble
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Knoben itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 658 (inferred from the name graph)
41,667 named Noble, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Noble
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Noble 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knoben 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 | 41,667as Noble | 1 in 8K | 42K | Noble | 35 |
| UY Uruguay | 5,152as Noble | 1 in 658 | 5.2K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 1,613as Nobel | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 983as Noble | 1 in 46K | 983 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 658as Noble | 1 in 76K | 658 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 568as Noben | 1 in 21K | 568 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 382as Noble | 1 in 2K | 382 | — | — |
41,667 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 Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 352 | #5,770 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #66,314 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Knoben have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Noble, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Knoben most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Knoben itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 658 people named Noble.
- How common is the name Knoben?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,667 people named Noble in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Knoben?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knobenThe 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, “Knoben”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.