Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Knowlton

#23,776 most common boys' name of all time · #62,785 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1897–1925

Rank among boys
#23,776
Rank overall
#62,785 of 105,966
First appeared
1897
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
26
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1918 #3,791
Best rank
#1,223 1897
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
19001920

Knowlton first appears in 1897. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1925 — 5 5 #4,307
1923 — 5 5 #4,337
1918 — 6 6 #3,791
1916 — 5 5 #4,000
1897 — 5 5 #1,223